Hold the aggresion!

at least on Facebook…

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Farmville Question

Why is Farmville so popular on Facebook?

Farmville Answer

Why is Farmville so popular on Facebook?BECAUSE FACEBOOKERS JUST WANNA HAVE

FUN

What do I do?I’m having fun. Everytime.

Other people will tell you:

I’m connecting with old friends (yeah, but just to bring back fun memories, to )

I’m publishing my vacation pictures (show off and have fun)I’m promoting my blog (you think you are, but people are just

having fun with it)I’m setting up groups for people (you may think they’ll have

proffesional interest but they’ll just enter to have fun)

Why are we here?Let’s have more fun.

How do we do that?

Scrap the bad things and improve the good ones.

Bad things: aggressive advertising of anything (even your blog!), anomalies (there’s a page for that! http://bit.ly/anomaliile )

Good things: REAL sharing, REAL talking, REAL playing

Ways to make it more fun

The Death of the “voting Like”Remember the old-as-the-internet “please click on my

link to vote for my …”?

It’s back. Stronger.

Now it’s “Please <<like>> my post/photo to vote for my …”

Let “like” be “like!”

… or suffer the consequences

Inviting everyone everywhere

• Usual event figures:– Attending: small number– Might Attend: slightly bigger number– Not Attending: a few more times than attending– Awaiting Reply: A few times more than not

attending.– And almost always the same...

• FOCUS ON ATTENDING, not on all others…

Bring the REAL back!

• You can make facebook more fun if you:• Share interesting things more than things your

friends asked you to share• “Like” more interesting stuff than stuff your

‘friends’ asked you to share• Comment on what interests you more than in

contests • Create online events or focus on actually

attending people in the offline events

One more thing…

Nobody can tell you that you’re using it WRONG. You never do.

BUT there are ways to make it more FUN, FUN, FUN!

And never forget: there actually is life beyond status updates.

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