Month 1 (August 07)

Until a week ago, my experience with Facebook had been strictly as an advertiser looking at the media platform. However, about a week ago, I received my first invitation to join Facebook and plunged right into developing my profile page and starting the networking within the site.

So what I plan to do monthly, is to update all of you on what I’m personally experiencing using the site, surprises, frustrations and how I see it impacting the social media space. In otherwards, I’ve become a “test monkey.”

Okey, dokey…. Here’s my experiences thus far.

n Wow, pretty easy to setup – types a bit, upload a photo… but now what do I do?

n Cool, just found the applications area – just added in NCAA Basketball info (the darn thing doesn’t work!), my Chinese Horoscope (Year of the Dragon), Where I’ve Been Map (show me as an “international man of mystery” – ha!), hey I can add my heritage with flags of the countries, and the Friend Wheel (which lists all my friends and how they’re connected) – frankly it’s a bit puney right now.

n Friends – oh yea, I need to find some. Alright, found some folks at HP, an old friend of my brothers. Ahh, I can have Facebook look at my contacts list and tell me who has a page already… that’s handy.

n Networks – I’ll hook up to the HP network…. And of course my location Houston, TX. Bummer… it won’t let me add a network for where I live and my home town. Heck, I’d like to connect with friends in Wichita, KS!!

n My high school – I can connect with folks who I graduated with! Total bummer, there’s only 2 others and I really didn’t know them.

Month 1 review – ok, it’s kind of interesting, but perhaps 43 year old, white males, living in Houston, TX aren’t the target audience. But I’ll keep giving it a chance.

Scott

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