Social media

[Dick W.]

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I have no dog in the hunt either way, but if the NCRS is to attract younger people, we have to use their preferred mode of communication. Right now, social media is THE mode that is the choice of younger generations. Businesses that have embraced that mode and have used it to market their products have done very well. A business facebook page is a very inexpensive investment and if properly constructed will have a very good ROI (return on investment). The problems that most people have with social media come from not paying attention. They share everything with everyone, open links, that if they were in an email, they would ignore, and end up with problems.

[George C.]

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Rob, very insightful response. As a father of a 14 and soon to be 16 year old, I can tell you that FB (social media) is a huge part of that generation's daily lives.

Unlike the Internet, it's not a fad that's going away....

Yes, it seems it's not going away. Too bad more parents can't control (myself included) and try and direct young kids today to not be so willing to publish information about themselves and families over the internet.
Here in Rochester, last week a young high school girl took her life over "cyber bullying". How do you prove something like that ?? Happened in Buffalo too in September a young high school boy took his life also. Facebook seems to be for people about bragging and how many friends one can accumulate and hurting others feeling, if used incorrectly. Which in my opinion is being used that way by alot of people on facebook. I heard facebook is turning out to be a big cause of divorce. Old fashion thinking.......yes. My business is my business not the facebook. Oh yeah "opinions are like ****** everybody has one. Facebook, Myspace.....not for me. My $.02.

[Michael H.]

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I A business facebook page is a very inexpensive investment and if properly constructed will have a very good ROI (return on investment). .

But if it slows my NCRS Discussion Board page load time down to 1996 Windows 3.1 dial up speed, what good is it? It's getting irritating.

Cound be partially because I have Microsoft Security Essentials running but I'm not shutting that off.

[Brian M.]

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I think these links cheapen the NCRS. JMHO

[Terry M.]

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Sorry, guys, I disagree about LinkedIn. When's the last time you read about spam, or phishing, or a virus proliferating through LinkedIn accounts. And you don't see any of the junk going on like you do on Facebook and Myspace. I don't know anyone who "socializes" on LinkedIn. It's used mostly to connect with other businesses or employers.

Facebook and Myspace are bad news. Every week you can read articles about various cyber attacks (see above) originating on these sites and user security is nonexistent. And that's why we don't permit our staff to access them at work, but they are permitted to access LinkedIn.

Thanks.

Ken,

I don't belong to Linkedin, and I find it annoying when I get repeated "invitations" to join from NCRS people who have joined. I believe when one joins their entire email address list is sent "invitations" to join Linkedin. To me these are spam -- plain and simple.

[Michael W.]

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I believe when one joins their entire email address list is sent "invitations" to join Linkedin. To me these are spam -- plain and simple.

Absolutely- when people join Facebook or similar their email address book is uploaded to their server so your address can be linked to others. Facebook has your add'y and knows who you know- all without your permission. Nice.

[Clem Z.]

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if you are single and living in your parents basement you most likely welcome the unsolicited emails.

[Clem Z.]

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I have no dog in the hunt either way, but if the NCRS is to attract younger people, we have to use their preferred mode of communication. Right now, social media is THE mode that is the choice of younger generations. Businesses that have embraced that mode and have used it to market their products have done very well. A business facebook page is a very inexpensive investment and if properly constructed will have a very good ROI (return on investment). The problems that most people have with social media come from not paying attention. They share everything with everyone, open links, that if they were in an email, they would ignore, and end up with problems.

obama got elected by using social media. good or bad depends on your political persuasion.

[Dick W.]

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But if it slows my NCRS Discussion Board page load time down to 1996 Windows 3.1 dial up speed, what good is it? It's getting irritating.

Cound be partially because I have Microsoft Security Essentials running but I'm not shutting that off.

Security Essentials is ALL that I am running in the background. I got rid of the crap McAfee and Norton sells for security software. They are memory hogs and are no better, if even as good, as Microsoft Security Essentials. I have had NO problems since I uninstalled that other crap and installed MSE. Adaware, Trend PCillen, all those programs slow your computer down. Watch them run in the background and see how much memory they use.

Having more than one security program on a computer can really slow it down. The programs can conflict with each other.

[Steven S.]

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Use a Mac. No problems with virus control and no loss of speed. I agree that if we do not want NCRS to die off with us, we need to be able to communicate with the younger generations. They communicate via these media methods.

[Dennis C.]

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While I agree we need to bring in younger people to NCRS, I don't think just having social media links in our private forum is going to do the trick. All it is doing is slowing down our board. It takes me a 1/3 longer to read since the links were put up.

Want to prove it, turn the links off for 24 hours and see if the problems disappear.

We have a meet and do little to no advertising outside of our own organization. We should find a way to get young people involved - get them involved with the cars first - the rest will follow. I have been to shows where not one sign was put up to advertise the show. We need to go out to the schools and find away to get them involved. Something similar to what is done with kids at the national convention.

Just my thoughts............

Dennis

[Paul Y.]

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I agree. In the real estate business if you are not able to be googled you are out of business with the new generation. It is not without it's problems, but I am happy to be with a company of techies that are progressive and have their finger on the pulse of technology. As a baby boomer, it would be easy for the techies to pass me by. My affirmation is "I embrace technology" and has been for twenty years. I'm 64 and remember when the micro wave was the size of a stand up freezer. How many of you use a micro wave?

[Chris E.]

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Ken,

I don't belong to Linkedin, and I find it annoying when I get repeated "invitations" to join from NCRS people who have joined. I believe when one joins their entire email address list is sent "invitations" to join Linkedin. To me these are spam -- plain and simple.

Terry, you can control that in LinkedIn. What you are describing is not the case. (current user of LinkedIn here)

[Terry M.]

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Terry, you can control that in LinkedIn. What you are describing is not the case. (current user of LinkedIn here)

I can't control it because I am not joining. Perhaps those who do join can control it, but they are not -- or at least some are not. I do enjoy communicating with Corvette folks with early C3 tech issues, and for that reason I am probably on many folks email address lists. I guess it (the email invitations) is the price of helping out.

[Kenneth H.]

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Terry,

I agree that the "invitations" are annoying and I'm also not saying that LinkedIn is a good thing. I needed it once to make contact with an associate but don't use it much. I don't think that the invitations are associated with the users email address book though. My email address book is a mile long at work, and I know my account has never sent any invitations out. If that happened, I would close my account immediately.

Also, I didn't realize that LinkedIn "invitations" could be sent to email accounts that weren't associated with LinkedIn account holders. I thought that invitations could only be sent to other current users of LinkedIn. That kinda sucks. The only point that I was making previously is that LinkedIn appears to be a safer "business" alternative to the "social" networks such as Facebook and Myspace.


Thanks.