Having An About Face(book): For The Stubborn Networkers

If you have adult friends who are still on the fence (or not even close to the fence) when it comes to Facebook, remind them of this.
Networkers need to be able to connect and contact folks easily. If your adult friends are on LinkedIn, but not on Facebook, they understand the basics of social networking. With Facebook, all you need is a name, and you can send correspondence to that person.
If I always wanted to reach out to David Chappelle, I don’t need to know his manager, his publicist, his agent, his email, or his cell number. I can search for him on Facebook and send him a message. True, he may have handlers who read his stuff (and won’t relay the message), but I can get at him.
Just imagine if it was imperative to contact someone who wasn’t as famous as Dave. You’re on a bus reading a magazine and the subject matter made you think about someone you hadn’t talked to in awhile. You don’t have that person’s info handy, because it’s been 10 years, but you had a good relationship with that person. You pull out your Blackberry and go to the Facebook app and search him out.
And you found him.
And you sent him a message.
And you sent him a friend request.

And he hit you back right away.
And he’s glad you thought about him.
And he has a great new job and would like to take you to dinner to catch up.

How easy was that? The possibility to network with a person in a good job who’s an old buddy, sounds like money down the road.

What makes me laugh is that those who are hesitant to join Facebook are the same folks who want to stop cold-calling, but don’t see this easy and warm way to communicate a better alternative.  And all of us who do understand it, are laughing…all the way to the few banks that are left.

(photo credit:  Robert Insall)

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