Joreenlye's Blog
Just another WordPress.com weblogArchive for facebook
Know Twitter inside out as a guy
Friendster used to be my first social networking website that i frequent.
It used to be the coolest thing during my secondary school days.
Then it became Facebook.
And now.. Twitter.
Intially my perception of twitter is that it is just another social media platform that allows people to know what each other are doing.
I thought to myself, isn’t it the same as Facebook‘s ‘what are you doing now’ application? (Many said that the idea originated from Twitter)
The point is, i find that why bother using twitter when you have facebook (FB) since FB has that application and much more.
After these few weeks of intensive Twitter usage as well as some fine-tuning on how to use Twitter correctly, i finally see the beauty of Twitter.
To make the digestion of facts easier,
Think of Twitter as a guy.
He would be a charming one.
He would be such a lovable and sociable person
whereby loads of people likes to be with him.
Twitter likes to share friends.
From him, these people will get to know other people from various background and the chain follows on.
If any friend wishes to know another friend,
Twitter would generously introduce you to him by letting you ‘Follow’ that person.
Anyone can ‘Follow‘ Anyone and that person is able ‘Follow’ you back.
You guys can then share information with each other.
However, Twitter is not ‘so’ awesome.
Being a guy that treasures time alot,
Twitter likes to carry short conversation that lasts within ‘140 characters‘.
This allows him to easily know the latest news and gossips that his friends are talking about.
If there are any lovebirds who wishes to talk in private,
Twitter would also allow them to ‘Direct Message‘ each other in private.
Oh Twitter, how understanding and thoughtful to our needs.
And if lets say twitter brings his friends to a bar.
A bar being noisy and crowded with people,
its normal if one person didn’t know another person is talking to him.
This is when dear twitter is able to allow them to do so by ‘mentioning‘ names (example: @joreenlye).
Isn’t Twitter awesome?
From him, millions of people are able to connect with people from the other side of the globe, are able to establish business relationships, are able to get the best information and lastly, they are able to get what else but friends. 
What’s more? its free. <3
NCT seminar styled presentation- Facebook
Today was yenling and my turn to hold a seminar styled presentation on Facebook in NCT class.
Before this project, i thought i knew everything there was to Facebook.
I have a facebook account, i’ve played games there, i’ve wrote on friends’ walls, i’ve posted photos and videos. See, i am a facebook guru..not.
I believe that there are many people like me out there thinking that we know how to use facebook.well.. we might be half right only.
The other half lies with the usage of facebook page and facebook group.
Basically a page and group serves different purposes depending on the people you are reaching out to.
Don’t understand?
Let Joreen give you a crash course on facebook.
A facebook page:
-serves as a platform for you to build long term relationships with your fans, readers or customers
-commonly used by businesses, brands, movies, celebrities etc
-allows interaction with fans/customers without having them to be connected to a personal account
-allows event creations & invitations
-has no friend capacity
-can be indexed by external search engine
and on the other hand,
A facebook group:
-for smaller scale interaction on a personal level and/or around a cause
-usually held for hosting an active discussion & attracting quick attention
-has a 5000 friend capacity
-allows member approval
-administrator can be seen
however the similarities in both a page and a group are that:
-both allows hosting of discussion
-has discussion wall and forum
-allows messaging to all members
-allows video and public photo exchange
-have to manually track activities
There..so much clearer isn’t it?
Here’s a little quiz to see whether you have successfully digested all the facts.
1.Poney Pete has to create a social advertisement for his
company on facebook, which is the platform that allows him
to do so?
a)Page
b)Group
c)Both
2. Zouk should appear under the Facebook Group
category and ZoukOut should be under the page
category.
a)True
b)False
c)Neither
3.What is the maximum capacity of members you
can have in a group?
a)No limit
b)1000
c)5000
Have you managed to answer this 3 questions correctly?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1. (A) Social ads can only be held on a page, a group does not allow you to do that
2. (B) false. Zouk is the company’s name and zoukout is the event therefore it should be page and grp respectively
3.(C)5000,whereas page allows you to have unlimited fans
well..that pretty much sums up the basic differences and similarities you have to know about facebook’s page and group!
Hope that these information has been useful, at least it does to me.
Btw as suggested by Ms Kwa to share it with the rest, here are the slides which yenling and i have created for NCT.
Hope that it would be useful to those who have yet to present.
Hints:
Lil’ rewards like snacks are really helpful and greatly appreciated by hungry people in our class. (idea originated from joan’s group) Therefore it would be really useful to get ppl’s attention and participation. Activities that allow ppl to get off their seats and move ard would really help as well.
This is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=86757740868b94812fb2ca15d7ea42d97a0583a32629b36aa 601da0f25e869f4
All the best<3
