Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama

…with the day’s third viral scam just picking up speed as we post this. Don’t click on any posts that look like the one below unless you want to forward this spamware to all your friends on Facebook.

Word of this new scam arrived in our inbox within 20 minutes of learning that Facebook had diffused a prior spam campaign.

via ALERT: Third Scam Today Rips Across Facebook.

Facebook’s Recommendations Plugin shows personalized recommendations to your users. Since the content is hosted by Facebook, the plugin can display personalized recommendations whether or not the user has logged into your site. To generate the recommendations, the plugin considers all the social interactions with URLs from your site. For a logged in Facebook user, the plugin will give preference to and highlight objects her friends have interacted with. Here is a sample of some of the things people have liked/shared from this blog to give you an idea.

Yesterday Facebook relaunched new version of Groups they claim allows us to stay closer to groups of people in our lives. This new version makes it easy for us to build a space for important groups of people in our life—our family, our soccer team, our book club. All you have to do to get started is to create a group, add friends and start sharing.

Read more about the new groups on Facebook’s blog post… New Groups: Stay Closer to Groups of People in Your Life.

Social media allows allows you to meet new people – new friends, customers, prospects, alliances, mentors, employees and other people you need to suceed.  More importantly, it also allows you to quickly and efficiently keep in touch with your current customers which is bound to increase retention, referrals and exposure.

Do you know the number one reason why customers switch suppliers?

A book called “Lessons from the Field” by Howard Feiertag and John Hogan gives the following reasons for customers leaving:

o Death or moving away – 4%

o The influence of friends and relatives – 5%

o Competitor marketing and special offers – 9%

o Dissatisfaction with product or price – 14%

o Perceived indifference of the supplier – 68%

Although connecting with people face-to-face will always be the best way for two people to communicate, social media allows you to communicate with a large number of people very effectively.  Social media can also greatly improve your search engine ranking, and then there’s always the point that, some people just plain prefer to communicate with social media rather than email.

Life is a team sport and it’s important to ♥ your entire sphere of infuence — your friends, employees, suppliers, prospects, alliances, mentors, and other people you need to succeed.  Don’t let your competition win by default — ensure your brand is represented in all key markets.

Last time I checked, I had 945 Facebook friends. That’s a lot of people with news to share, but Facebook’s home page can organize these stories for me into two easy-to-follow views of my News Feed—a summary of some of the top stories called “Top News” and a live feed of all stories called “Most Recent.”  Here’s a great post that explains it very well…  Facebook Tips: What’s the Difference between Top News and Most Recent?.

“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

Bob Marley

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