Thirteen Facebook fallacies and musings

If you are on Facebook to play silly games, share meme photos, or other "casual" uses, skip this read. It is not for you.

If you are on Facebook to be social media savvy, find work, or get laid, read on.

I took a brief respite from Facebook to sit back and analyze articles and experiences. Summarized for a quick read because I know you want to go back to your news feed.

• if you are on Facebook for shits and grins, then you are in the right place.
• if you are on Facebook to nurture a network of people you can work with, go to LinkedIn.
• if you are on Facebook to find a random sexual encounter, forget it. People are hiding behind themselves and will tease you but not consummate.
• if you are on Facebook to share information and skills, people will suck the life out of you.
• Noone I know has ever made a dollar off of Facebook (unadvertised) because they are cool.
• If you are on Facebook to show how much you know, people will repost it as their ideas.
• If you post quality photography on Facebook, it will be poached without credit.
• If you are on Facebook and are serious about developing yourself as a brand, create another page and leave you personal page for shits and giggles.
• If you are on Facebook and run ads, do not correlate likes with sales conversions.
• If you are on Facebook and join groups for music or bands, there will be more drama than discussion.
• If you use Facebook for gratuitous self promotion, it will only show how little you understand media.
• If you become addicted to Facebook until the wee hours of the morning, set a timer.

I have a personal page, and maintain at least ten other pages or groups. I can monitor visitors, demographics, likes, shares, etc. This is not just an anti Facebook spew.

08/29/2013 ADG