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Last Updated on August 26, 2017

If you’re on Facebook, I invite you to like Patrick’s Place there. Just visit the fan page and click the little like button at the top of the page.

In addition to the articles I’m posting here on the blog, I’m also posting links to other stories I find interesting, but that may not warrant a post here. (At least, not immediately.)

It’s a little extra content that you might find entertaining on a slow day when you’re secretly scanning your friend feed while you’re pretending you’re hard at work.

You can also follow my Twitter account, which is named, appropriately enough, @patricksplace.

And toss me into one of your circles on Google+ if you’re so inclined. You can find me here on that service.

Thanks for liking, following and circling. I don’t know if I want to think about what comes after that!

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Patrick is a Christian with more than 30 years experience in professional writing, producing and marketing. His professional background also includes social media, reporting for broadcast television and the web, directing, videography and photography. He enjoys getting to know people over coffee and spending time with his dog.

5 Comments

  • @patricksplace

    Now, see, this is why I ask you questions – I never worry that you’ll provide skimpy answers to important questions.

    I’m not on Twitter and don’t know that I will ever do that. I’d have to say that 140 characters seems pointless to me. I have nothing that short to say and often exceed the 400 that Facebook provides. What would I tell people on Twitter? I find that I try to stay away from putting extraneous comments about my eating or other daily habits that are of little to no interest to people (although in saying that I admit that not only do I post the occasional comment about going to lay in my hammock, but the working masses all see it and comment back! So apparently the inane information is welcome to some as well).

    Google+ sounds interesting and maybe I’ll take a look at that. I rarely engage in more than one kind of site at a given time. I have to admit that years ago I signed up for a Live Journal account and I couldn’t even tell you the log in or password for it. Chances are good that I would do the same in G+ – go in, have the fun of setting up a new profile and going through all that jazz, then never go back in and do anything with it…

    By the bye, maybe you can tell me how to set up my FB page for my blog to automatically update and show new posts. I don’t remember half the time to do it myself.

    Thanks!

  • @AislíngeKelloggdeGómez I’ll admit it: it IS extra work staying active (and being useful) on multiple social media networks. In terms of referrals, of the three, Twitter brings me the most traffic. Then Facebook. Then Google+.

    I avoided Twitter because I saw far too much of the “having eggs for breakfast” tweets that made me wonder who could possibly care. But posting links to useful information (on my blog or elsewhere) and the occasional amusing quote can help you build a following and can, as a bonus, bring people to your site.

    I like Facebook a lot, and have a lot of contacts there. Many of them are people from school who wouldn’t have given me the time of day when we were classmates. I have a lot of co-workers and industry colleagues there, and most of my closest friends are there, too. So I can share news, post photos, and keep up with people I want to keep up with.

    As for Google+, I have to fess up: I really, REALLY wanted to hate it. Not because I have anything against Google: I like Google. I think it’s an incredible company that more companies should look like from an operational and employee relations standpoint. But my eagerness to find fault with Google+ was akin to the switch from VHS to DVD. I had a sizable collection of VHS tapes. Then DVDs came along and I felt the need to start buying everything over again. (I didn’t buy everything over again, but there’s that feeling that you should replace as much as you can as quickly as you can.)

    When it came to social networks, I have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook. I didn’t want to start over building up that network on another service.

    But I really like G+. It makes it a lot easier (and faster) to organize your friends or acquaintances into circles. You can place people into more than one circle, like “Co-Workers” or “Friends,” for example. Like Twitter (and unlike Facebook), you can place them in your circle whether they place you in theirs or not. And you can adjust your news feed with the click of a mouse to see what everyone in all of your circles has recently posted, or what only those in a specific circle have recently posted.

    And when you go to post something, you can easily select which circles see it or just select “public” and then everyone sees it. The idea is so good and makes so much sense that Facebook is now offering a similar “sharing” option on its service, which says a lot. Still, I think G+ has the edge on that kind of thing at the moment.

    For me, there are lot more people I know on Facebook than on G+. So I’m using G+ to network with interesting people, media, blogging and pastor types until more people I actually know show up.

    At the moment, I’m most active on Twitter and least active on G+. At least, for now. 🙂

  • Goodness me, Google+, FB and Twitter? Isn’t that overkill?

    What do you think of Google+? C-Net seems to think fairly highly about it, but I am not signed up on it and I don’t know if I know anyone on it (except you, and you’ll spill the beans on this and give me the good, bad and the ugly. Luis, my husband, sent me a join him on Twitter e-mail and I was sure it was a mistake or someone else with the same name… but no. His boss joined it and said Luis should to. There was no compelling reason to join. Luis hates these types of sites. How dopey.

    It just seems like too much work to be on too many social networking sites. What do you think?

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