How Friendly Do You Want To Be On Facebook?
Dec 19th, 2008 | By DebOnTheWeb | Category: TechnologyFacebook is fun. It’s given me a great way to reconnect with friends from long ago, like high school (which is longer ago than I like to think :), and stay in contact with friends, family and clients. Using Facebook for both business and personal friends got me thinking . . . there are some photos that I’ve chosen not to put on Facebook because they would only make sense to my family – we enjoy inside jokes and I don’t want to alienate some of my other friends. The good news is there’s an easy way to solve this dilemma without having to have 2 Facebook accounts.
Facebook allows you to decide how much of your information you want to share with other people. You can even decide on a person by person basis. Here’s how you do it.
- First log into your Facebook account
- Under Settings, choose Privacy Settings
- Click on your Profile and from here you can decide who you want to allow to see your personal information, photos or videos that you’ve been tagged in and who can post to your wall.
- To change any of the default settings, just click on Edit Custom Settings and it will bring up the privacy options box which looks like this:
From here you can decide if you want to share that information with just your friends, your friends’ friends, and any of your networks. You can decide to block a single person from seeing that information or you can even make a list of people and block the list from seeing certain information, photos or videos.
Each time you post a new photo album, you’ll also have the choice whether to share the photos with your entire network or to choose who you’d like to be able to see the photos.
Facebook is a lot of fun and can be a great tool for business as well. I hope these easy tips will help you share what you want with who you want!
Hey Deb…
Very helpful, thanks! I just set up an account with Facebook and had some doubts about sharing so much personal stuff with “friends of friends”. None of their business, I thought. This will address my concerns and place me more in control. That’s good.
BTW..I am a residential real estate agent in Charlotte, NC (Coldwell Banker United). I want to start doing videos on all of my listings where it makes sense (e.g. >$300K). I have not found a source for taking and editing the videos. Can you share a name(s) of perhaps someone who does work in the Charlotte area, or who could recommend someone? I’ll continue to research also.
Also, if you know of anyone looking to relocate to the Charlotte area, please consider sending a referral this way. With business being down so much these days, I’m willing to pay a 40% referral fee. What relocation network does your company use? If it is Cartis, we may have to go through them.
HNY!
Denny Bowler
704-579-9200
Hi Denny,
I’m glad that the information is helpful to you!
Good for you for wanting to start doing videos of your listings. I began adding in videos to my marketing mix a year ago and feel they were very instrumental in my having an average day on market of 44 for 2008. WellcomeMat is a real estate video website. Not only can you post your videos here, but they have a good list of videographers and you can search by zip code. I found 4 people in the Charlotte area you could check out (but unfortunately it wouldn’t give me a link to the search results so you’ll have to do the search yourself).
That’s a very generous referral fee but ERA is tied in with Cartis as well.
Happy New Year!
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