If you read my blog regularly then you know what I think about social media, I love them, I’m pro all of them. I think its very important to have a presence in every social media website possible, the logic is not for you to visit and update them every day but to make sure that when people wants to find you, they can find you anywhere.
With this in mind, I’ve heard a lot of grief about Facebook (link to my profile) lately, the main complaints are 
because of some “applications” within Facebook. It looks like everything is an application inside Facebook, you try to be nice playing with your friends but applications tend to take over and start spamming left and right leading people to believe that the problem is you.
I use Facebook mainly as a repeater for other activities I do on the web, it shows my blog entries, my twitter entries, and my flickr entries. I try not to accept anyone’s applications, but if someone sends me a message that includes an application what I do is that after I decline the application, I send a message to the user explaining why I declined his or her invitation.
I try to play nice but it’s your name the one that gets damaged if any of your applications start spamming other Facebook users. Beware of those application that wants to access your email account, just say no, make sure that you don’t install an application unless you know is going to help on your goals as a Facebook user. One example is Flickr, if I didn’t have the need to display my photos automatically, I wouldn’t have installed the application.
Facebook is a great platform, I have lots of fun talking to my family about anything. While there’s a couple friends and podcasters that uses the service on my list of friends, the only one who uses it more often to connect to me are CC Chapman from Managing the Gray and Kevin Rose from Diggnation.
Another podcaster that gets this having a presence concept is Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library TV, he really understand new media, he has a profile on every major social media website out there. Don’t feel pressured to post or make changes often, most social media websites has the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds, you can point your RSS to your profile and it will be updated automatically all the time.
Quick summary, if you want to have a great experience in Facebook, don’t accept applications and, link to other profiles you have on other services to keep your profile up to date with new content. If you need to erase your account, simply find some Java Script code and add it to your site, Facebook doesn’t like this and they will erase your account immediately.
Share your Facebook experiences, tips and tricks, and annoyances by leaving a comment on this post. As always you can contact me by sending me an email at lmenendez7@gmail.com, use my forums to at www.lwees.com/forum. Also find me on all major social media sites by the nick of LwEEs, Thanks for reading.
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