Facebook friends
John Reese caused quite a stir recently when he emailed his super-sized lists inviting his subscribers to become his friend on Facebook, and in just a few days reached Facebook’s self-imposed maximum of 5000 friends.
As a spin-off other Internet marketers on Facebook gained new friends, as people new to the site started using the Facebook tools to send out their own invites, and I got dozens of requests .
The whole thing has been an excellent example of how viral marketing works. Personally I’ve been on Facebook for around 6 months, after joining out of curiosity, and although I haven’t embraced it as passionately as some of my fellow Internet marketers I must admit that I find it fascinating at times and spend longer there than I should.
So here’s a little invite from me: if you’d like to become my Facebook friend you’ll find my page here.
Hi Phil,
long time no speak!
facebook can easily turn in to a time sucking black hole, I realised I might be spending too much time “playing” with the fun apps in there when I got my “Petrolhead” car up to a Bugatti Veyron (needs 2 million points/500+ races won).
It suddenly dawned on me that I’d spent hours on getting a picture of a nice car on my profile, and nothing else, not that great a way to spend time..
so I decided to do something a bit more interesting instead and had a FaceBook application written for me instead (tagk.com), much “cooler”… lol!
I also got a bit of a boost in my friends numbers from John Reese’s recent facebook “push”.
cheers,
MattG
Tagk looks good Matt, nice to see you doing something other than being a petrolhead and jetting off on ski holidays
But how come you haven’t got stumbleupon listed on tagk?
I use it all the time and come across some great sites.
http://philwiley.stumbleupon.com/
phil
Hi Phil,
oops!
it’s probably not the only one I’ve missed!
I’ll get my coder on it asap, thanks.
I was about to shoot you an email, hope the old addy I’ve got for you still works, or should I send it through facebook?
there’s a couple of blog plugins I though you might like to add here, including one that would’ve automatically let me know you’d replied, instead of me having to come back and check…
MattG
Matt
the old email address you’ve got for me is next to useless. The only way you can be sure of reaching me is via my gmail email - if you have that - or the contact form on this site
http://philwiley.com/contact/
It’ll be a while before I reply though because I’m packing it in for the day and opening a bottle of Red.
phil
you’re calling it a day and opening a bottle of red?
now that sounds tempting…
I better not though, as it’s only 10am here in good old blighty, so I guess I’ll just have to stick with tea, for now.
not sure I’ve got your gmail addy, so I’ll use the contact form, thanks, and no rush on a reply.
cheers,
MattG