Okay, I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack, not the sharpest tool in the shed, maybe even a few frenchfries from having a happy meal...or however you want to say it.
I ain't computer saavy.
There. I admit it.
So, I was reading some blog or maybe it was Matt Lauer on the Today show...whatever. An expert said that the only way to get where ever it is you want to be is via the internet. One must, the expert said quite firmly, get a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and shed a few decades. At least it wasn't pounds. I work around teens, I can get help with the whole decades thing. The weight's not going anywhere too soon...but that's a whole other whining blog. Anyway, I set up my Facebook page and purposefully excluded family and friends when I send out my invites, but wouldn't you know it...I get inundated with friend requests from the very people I was dodging. What's up with that? Here I am trying to set up a "professional" real author-type page and I get all the down home types firing off questions and opinions.
Either the experts are wrong or I'm too gulible. Or both.
2 comments:
My sister is on Facebook but she hasn't 'friended' me, and I'm happy about that because she has told me to my face that I write 'fluff'. Whatever. She HAS joined my mailing list, again, "whatever." (Gee, I sound like a teenager, not a half-century card-holder.)
However, I hve to back Matt or the expert on the Facebook and Twitter phenomena. I've been tracking my website hits and blog hits, trying to figure out where people are coming from - and a good number of them do come from Facebook. I haven't done the "invitation" route yet, just changed my status message and they've followed that. Plus I've guestblogged a few places, and noticed people have come from Facebook to comment on those blogs. So it works.
I haven't been on Twitter long enough yet, but yes, there's a huge networking ability there. For now it's more that I can keep in touch and get to know others in the business and get instantaneous knowledge that may not come out for days.
(And contests - I won a book today because someone said 'the first three people to tweet me win a book of their choice'. Hey, you can't argue with a free book.)
With my internet bandwidth problems remember I wasn't able to get setup before the conference but with the speedy connection in the room I signed up for Facebook on one of our 5minute trips to the room. Amazing.
I'm awed by the immediate friending I've been getting - those in common with Leah and you and those in common with them. Really sweet.
So now I'm at Books a Million on free wireless posting my pictures and catching up on a couple blogs.
You're doing great, CD! You've even got a twitter don't you?
And I'm shouting congratulations on that FULL at Con.
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