« “My Social Media Living Room”: Today’s focus on pulverTV – starting at 11AM EST / 1600 GMT | Main | Announcing pulverTV 24/7: Our 24 Hour Internet TV Channel »
November 20, 2007
Social Media Anecdotes: The Facebook Status Message
Friends of mine on Facebook know I make it a point to update my Facebook Status.
During the past few months I’ve learned to appreciate the “real-enough time” nature of Facebook messages. Status message updates on Facebook can have the effect of a group SMS message.
- - -
A few months ago Amit Shafrir and I were in a meeting and looking to name a startup. In my status message I wrote: “If you know Latin please contact me” and within 20 minutes, 3 people contacted me and within the hour I had a name for a new startup.
During my keynote at Fall 2007 VON, I wrote as my status message: “Jeff is doing a Facebook demo. Please message him if you see this.” I received 31 messages in the 18 minutes that followed.
And just last Monday, within minutes of setting my Facebook status message to “Jeff is visiting Boston tomorrow”, I ended up being invited for a meeting with my friend Israel Drori. I was also invited to give an impromptu guest lecture to the class of Pablo Baqués who is a professor at The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology which I gave the following afternoon. (These are two meetings which never would have happened if I didn’t mention I was heading to Boston.)
While the response you receive from your Facebook status messages will be a function of the size of your social network and how many people happen to be online when you post your update, you may be surprised to how effective it can be.
Social media is changing the face of communications.
[edit: you can now join this conversation on Facebook.]
---
Readers of my blog are invited to join me on both twitter and Facebook.
Tags: facebook, Amit Shafrir, Social Media, Pablo Baqués, Jeff Pulver
Share this post:
Digg |
del.icio.us |
Reddit |
Newsvine |
Google Bookmark |
Yahoo MyWeb |
StumbleUpon
Posted by jeff on November 20, 2007 10:02 AM | Permalink
Additional resources: Watch PrimeTime TV Shows | Watch the Jeff Pulver Show | Jeff's Qik Videos
Comments
I have been trying over two hours to contact the insurance company for my car to ask a question. How in the heck do quote ask a machine a question. I am about ready to cancel next year because of this. It is so frustrating.
[url=http://search.fasthoster.info/index.htm]AARP Auto Ins Program From[/url]
[url=http://your.comphost.info/index.htm]Best Deals On Auto Insurance! Get quote Free Qoute[/url]
[url=http://insurance.comphost.info]Top 100 Auto Insurance Myths[/url]
[url=http://aarp.micorella.org]Be Wary of Free Online Credit Reports[/url]
[url=http://auto.comphost.info/index.htm]AARP Auto Insurance[/url]
[url=http://forexx.eu.interia.pl/index.htm]forex trading course ranking[/url]
[url=http://searcih.w.interia.pl]site map[/url]
[url=http://prevacid.balder.prohosting.com]Cheap Pharmacy:Prevacid[/url]
[url=http://hydrocodone.ofingo.com]Buy Hydrocodone Online[/url]
Posted by: Jonathan at November 30, 2007 02:32 PM
Keep it going Jeff, as I previously said, you showing the way for users worldwide to cross the chasm into the world of real-time social media communications. Every day now, I have another person from work adding me on Facebook (and or over LinkedIn), and while still being in school for now, it's interesting to see the evolution take place.
My hypothesis, let's say, 1.5-2 years ago, or even less, was that Google should have bought Facebook. They had the platform -- e-mail, calendar, IM, search, most importantly, advertising. Now Facebook's valuation exceeds $10 billion without a doubt, and the opportunity is lost as the startup exponentially grows, and worldwide is becoming a defacto standard. With any acquisition out of the question now (perhaps on the wrong judgment of players in the Internet market), where do you see the direction of Facebook going in the upcoming years? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts regarding this ..
On another note, do you also think with everyone signing up for Facebook that previously used LinkedIn for professional contacts, there will soon be an emergence, or mesh, between the professional and academia world? It already is used as one, but if so, I can see Facebook evolving as a powerful recruiting tool in the future, which can already be observed in the advertisements, groups, etc.
Just thought I would share a few morning thoughts after reading your posting, have a good day :)
Best regards,
Justin Biegel
Posted by: Justin Biegel at November 21, 2007 08:41 AM
Great examples Jeff!
My twitter community is starting to help me with questions. It's a cool phenomenon to experience. It's just not the same as reading about when it happens to others. When it happens to you, it's like - people really do care.
And I try to respond likewise when I can help people too.
Posted by: Connie Bensen at November 21, 2007 12:42 AM
I can't imagine getting by anymore without these status updates, be they on Facebook or Twitter. In fact, I update my FB status from Twitter. Updates accelerate serendipity. I posted some of my use cases here:
Posted by: Alex at November 20, 2007 06:53 PM
I agree it.
Posted by: Tercüme at November 20, 2007 02:44 PM