First, I would like to apologize for the delay in getting this blog posted. It has been a busy month already!
As we are now in February, what social media trends have you noticed from last month? I have noticed the amount of Twitter users has gone down since last year. Many friends that started using Twitter have now phased out or disappeared completely. I have noticed that many of the small businesses who started using Facebook Fan pages in 2009 have gone down, but some are still using Facebook fairly well. Also on LinkedIN over the past few weeks, there has been more spam through the groups and much more people trying to connect. While I am on that topic, one word of advice for people looking to connect on LinkedIn or Facebook, always make the message to somebody new personal. Don’t use the generic message on FB or LinkedIn. If I don’t know you and I get a generic message from you to connect, most likely I would not connect with you.
What trends have you noticed in January so far? I’d love to hear your feedback.
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I’d have to say the one largest trend that I’ve seen in January is location based social media – FourSquare, Gowalla, Yelp (w/ check-ins). With FourSquare expanding nationally I think it’s opened up a lot of people eye to the location “game” and it will be interesting to see how brands start using these things to their advantage.
Hi Doug. Sorry its taken me so long to get here. One odd thing I am seeing is an increase in the number of random invites I am getting on Linkedin (and facebook) to some extent. But I am being asked for connections from people I have never heard of – I haven’t tracked it but I believe they are spamming everyone that has worked at a company they have worked. It is annoying. And EVERY one of them uses the generic invite message. “You’re someone I trust.” I’m considering sending them back a message that asks them for their social security number.