October 24, 2008 66 Comments

Facebook is NOT for Blind Email Marketing

I’m not a fan of the whole “fail!” thing, but that’s exactly what came to mind when I received this in my Facebook inbox:

facebook marketing

If this is what you think Facebook and social media tools are about, go back to school, son. Do I really have to educate on this post, or can you just read it, shake your head, and go back to making genuine connections?

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  • http://www.bakelikeaninja.wordpress.com Kathlyn

    Sooooooooo disappointing to see.

  • http://www.bakelikeaninja.wordpress.com Kathlyn

    Sooooooooo disappointing to see.

  • http://www.meredithgould.com Meredith Gould

    Sadly, this is the dominant perception of what it means to use social media for marketing. By the time attitudes change we’ll be up to, what? Web 3.0?

  • http://www.meredithgould.com Meredith Gould

    Sadly, this is the dominant perception of what it means to use social media for marketing. By the time attitudes change we’ll be up to, what? Web 3.0?

  • Radames

    the fail thing? I think you will soon find yourself having to explain something to somebody, because if you know of a group of people intentionally plotting against online marketing and haven’t report it you are in big trouble

    you better make another post and explain to us what the fail thing is because I want to know immediately

  • Radames

    the fail thing? I think you will soon find yourself having to explain something to somebody, because if you know of a group of people intentionally plotting against online marketing and haven’t report it you are in big trouble

    you better make another post and explain to us what the fail thing is because I want to know immediately

  • http://stevenimmons.org Steve Nimmons

    It’s examples like this that reinforce a perception of the industry as being full of cash grabbing opportunists with little social finesse. As a professional engineer I get grumpy when treated like a time share salesman – but I can understand business seeing this negative example as something of a norm. IT used to be full of cool clever people, now it seems to be full of wide-boys. I sometimes despair!

  • http://blog.stevenimmons.org Steve Nimmons

    It’s examples like this that reinforce a perception of the industry as being full of cash grabbing opportunists with little social finesse. As a professional engineer I get grumpy when treated like a time share salesman – but I can understand business seeing this negative example as something of a norm. IT used to be full of cool clever people, now it seems to be full of wide-boys. I sometimes despair!

  • http://www.mikeskitchenware.com Michael Grant

    Spam to me.. One shot Gone!!

  • http://www.mikeskitchenware.com Michael Grant

    Spam to me.. One shot Gone!!

  • http://www.lakepowellrealty.net Heather Rankin

    I’m not quick to un-friend but in the last two weeks i’ve had four or five “spammy” things in the inbox. It’s frustrating mostly because I didn’t see it coming and I approve pretty much everyone. Hate to go to a One Strike rule, but the busier I get the more of a necessity it becomes.

  • http://www.lakepowellrealty.net Heather Rankin

    I’m not quick to un-friend but in the last two weeks i’ve had four or five “spammy” things in the inbox. It’s frustrating mostly because I didn’t see it coming and I approve pretty much everyone. Hate to go to a One Strike rule, but the busier I get the more of a necessity it becomes.

  • http://www.ignitingtherevolution.com Jeremy Epstein

    the really interesting thing that this person doesn’t realize, perhaps, is that w/one click you can/will ‘de-friend’ them and then, the permission based relationship is finito…they don’t exist anymore.

  • http://www.ignitingtherevolution.com Jeremy Epstein

    the really interesting thing that this person doesn’t realize, perhaps, is that w/one click you can/will ‘de-friend’ them and then, the permission based relationship is finito…they don’t exist anymore.

  • Tiffany
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