Shut Out by StumbleUpon
You may recall it was only a little more than a week ago that I wrote a blog post praising StumbleUpon, and giving tips on how it can be used. Well … my StumbleUpon experiment is coming to an abrupt end. I’ve not been banned, but apparently StumbleUpon has decided that the content I find should not be seen by anyone. Let me explain…
Previous to the last handful of days, when I discovered something and then submitted it to StumbleUpon with a review, it would receive anywhere from 50 to 200 “views” by StumbleUpon users. My network was growing on the site, and I was starting to stumble more and more content, including (of course) content that I didn’t write or own. Essentially, I was doing what I suggested in my previous blog post. In fact, I was sure that I wasn’t using the site improperly because I received this review of my previous StumbleUpon post from a community manager at the site:
A truthful and well-thought article from someone who understands StumbleUpon and how to properly use it.
Then … the bottom fell out. I discovered a client article last weekend, and it received only one view. I figured it was a fluke, because that’s happened before. Then, I discovered and reviewed a client news release from PRWeb. It received 12 views, which is well below average. I still wasn’t worried, though. The next three articles I discovered, stumbled, and reviewed received only one view each. This included the post I wrote here about the new Facebook Weekly Page Updates, which was well received elsewhere. Now I knew something was up.
Facebook’s Weekly Page Update
I wanted to be one of what surely will be many Facebook Fan Page administrators to applaud a new offering from the social networking service. Today I received a handy little email from Facebook called the “Weekly Facebook Page Update”. Being an administrator on two of my own Facebook fan pages plus several more client fan pages, it’s sometimes hard to keep track of stats. These new weekly updates do it all for you. The email put all of my stats for the week in one easy-to-read list. Here’s a sampling:
Here is this week’s summary for the Facebook Page: Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation
+8 Fans this week (188 total Fans)
6 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (5 last week)
130 Visits to your page this week (101 Visits last week)
It gave similar stats for the fan pages for SleepBetter, EndGame PR, FightSMA, and all of the others I administer or co-administer.
I get a LOT of junk emails from social networking sites. It’s nice to get one that, while unsolicited, is extremely useful to me!
Facebook is Better for “Old Folks”
There’s a great post today on Mashable about something I’ve been talking about with clients and when I present to groups for quite some time — the fastest growing segment of the social media world has grey hair.
The article, Baby Boomers and Seniors Are Flocking to Facebook, has some great stats about the growth of the number of Americans 44+ on Facebook.
Again with the Privacy Issues, Facebook?
Those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Cliche’?
Sure.
True?
Absolutely.
Back in February, users argued with Facebook so much over who owns the material they post on the social networking site, the site was forced to amend the privacy settings it had just changed. That change in privacy settings probably didn’t slow down Facebook’s exponential growth, but it left a lot of users with a bad taste in their mouths.
Now, it sounds like we’re having another round of issues with Facebook over privacy. Recently, the site changed its privacy settings again, and asked all users to review them. The site made recommendations on what settings users should utilize, and some are suggesting that if users take those recommendations, their personal information (pictures, videos, status updates, etc.) will be LESS private than before. For an example of some of the reactions from the web, we go to Jason Calacanis, who suggests the company has turned evil:
New Twitter-Only Handheld
I just read on Mashable about the official release of the Twitter Peek, a new handheld Internet device that connects only to Twitter. It’s a head-scratcher. Obviously, any smartphone out there will connect to Twitter one way or another. The price is good ($199.99 with lifetime mobile service included or $99.99 with six months included and then a monthly fee) but it seems to me that purchasing a smartphone makes a lot more sense because it can accomplish other tasks, like .. well .. making phonecalls. Peek is known better for their handheld email-only devices.
Regardless of whether the product makes sense or anyone will buy it, I think it’s an interesting statement on how much Twitter is weaving itself into our lives. Have you ever seen a Facebook-only device? Yeah … me neither.
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