There is little doubt in my mind that social networking has become the penultimate way for you to reach your goals of internet notoriety. It comes as little surprise to me that you see things the same way. The real issue eventually arises when trying to decide which social media strategies you, as an Eventualist, should adopt to maximize you EffTDing.
Well, fear not. I’m here to make sure that you get a primer on “insecurity work” so that it’s done as securely as possible.
Eventualists should first be certain to “friend” everyone that you went to high school with, no matter whether you hung out with them or not. Even if you weren’t fond of one another, it’s certain you’ve grown past that. It’s important to keep up with how their lives are going even if they told you on more than one occasion to get one yourself back in the day.
The applications are key to your strategy here as well. Any of them that end in “ville” should be routinely accepted and played as frequently as you update your status.
Update your status every couple of hours, making sure to stop playing “ville” applications to do so no later than in 3 hour increments.
Follow everyone. This is high school for you all over again, only this time no one you went to high school with will be on here. They’re all on Facebook.
Make sure you run an application that notifies you when you receive a tweet about you, to you or from someone that you’re following. Twitter is all about instant gratification – if you start out doing it right you’ll eventually have it happening all the time.
Update your status every 30 minutes. Make sure you say exactly what you’re doing. Twitter is open source, so be open. (I’m talking to you, budding Eventualist who is reading this on the can right now.)
Avoid this service. You’ll only land a job that gives you more responsibility and lead to better career opportunities. You don’t want that.
Plurk
Another one to avoid. I don’t know anything about it, but anything that cute-sounding must be dirty.
Pownce
No time like the present to jump on this bandwagon. Here’s the link to get you eventually started.
A social networking site that combines happiness and haiku (joy + haiku = Jaiku). Updates can be done only in that form. Here’s a sample one:
What a happy day!
I can’t believe how I feel;
Please don’t kill me now.
(Note: Jaiku is owned by Google, so whatever you post there can be reviewed by them. So make good poems if you know what’s good for you.)
It’s like Facebook in that it’s for all of your old high school “friends” and like Twitter in that none of them are on it.
Not what I thought it was. Friends do not give you food there. Only use if you’re willing to get your own food.
Still the choice of musicians and Dane Cook. Eventual in setup and execution. Also eventual in how the service adopted everything that Facebook and Twitter did. Worth a look if you want everything in one place in an eventual manner. Oh, and if you want it to be in a place that remind you of a teenager’s bedroom, even better.
There you have it…a social networking introduction for all those following Eventualism. Speaking of following, I’ve got some social networking to do of my own. Before I “tweepart,” I’ll leave you with an eventual homework assignment.
Follow me here and fan me here.
Class dismissed.
