Facebook for what?
Posted on March 8, 2009
Since the invention of the internet, what sub-invention that attracts me to engage in an online activity is one and only: blogging. The reason is clear: (a) it offers tremendous chance and opportunity for everyone to spread out one’s idea through writing to a lot wider audience without any need to sweat it out. (b) It offers a level-playing field for everyone to publish one’s idea without any barrier of, say, cost and patron. Like what happens in conventional publishing tools.[1]
Blogging i.e. writing, both in free blog providers or in self-hosted blog, is therefore the most important online activity for me. Other internet invention such social networking as Friendster and Facebook and many others are ok so far as these tools support my blogging activities in terms of traffic and blog visibility.
I have Facebook account which main purpose is to drive traffic to my blog by using “imported note” and “feed aggregator” application and some other apps available. Once the applications installed in my Facebook, I’ll let it run its own course. I barely login to my Facebook account eversince. So, if you talk to me through my Facebook’s wall, forgive me if I hardly respond.
I also join almost all free online services such as Mybloglog, Blogcatalog, Twitter, any blog aggregators, you name it I’ve been there. The purpose: to drive more blog traffic. No more no less.
What’s your joining Facebook for?
But many people are joining Facebook for many different reasons some are (could be) as follows:
- Obamania: many western analysts attribute Obama’s stunning victory to Facebook. Some even call him the Facebook president. Naturally, any success story will reap fans who will faithfully follow suit. As far as Indonesian is concerned, Obamania in facebook are those would be politicians (caleg or MP candidate) who think they can follow Obama’s path.
- Friendster diehard alumni: as Facebook widely regarded as more sophisticated a social networking tools than Friendster it’s natural if Friendster users feel they have graduated from Friendster and needs to go to another level, say PhD level, that is Facebook.
- Pure trend followers: Many people do something because it’s done by many others. Many making Facebook account simply because they dont want to be lagged behind. They just dont want to be called outdated. These people just don’t have a clue what they are doing at least the first time they did it.
- Just to drive traffic to their blog. I am in this category.
- To keep in touch with friends and families (Anita, see her comment below).
- To find long lost friend (Edia Permata, see her comment below).
- Or you tell me (in the comment box) if you’re not among these four.
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Note:
[1] You need a good relation, apart from a good content, with publisher to publish a book. You need to have a patron inside a print media in order to make your op-ed piece easily get published. This is not always the case, but your piece will have a bigger chance to get published if you have a personal relation with editors of a particular conventional media, both newspapers and magazines.
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Jadi kemungkinan facebook ini hanya tren sesaat, persis seperti yang Mas bilang hanya karena demam obama saja mungkin.
Bisa jadi ini akan menjadi tren sesaat…kecuali akan ada “facebook2 baru” yg lebih menarik…
Globalization makes people need easy access including in social network. Esp. FB is more interactive than FS, even chat facility coz of wall-to-wall view that not need the same time to reply. Particularly, it has benefit in the interaction with close friend (nice to get new friend, but not main thing). We can express our think, mood, greeting, activity etc as well as really situation, without gesture of course, whenever coz wall will’be saved. It can be ourself actualization tool. It has fun actually. Note: it can be good thing, if we use it well, not addict.
berarti tergantung dari penggunaan yang kita inginkan dunk om.trs kayanya sih kalo dari social network gitu nantinya pasti akan muncul yang lebih banyak dan lebih baru lagi kan
FB…fenomena baru setelah friendster….klo aku seh memanfaatkanFB untuk sekedar join ma teman2 lama…dan membuat duscussion board…tujuan yg lain tentunya untuk mempromosikan blog kita
masih bingung…
fesbuk, cuma ikut2an aja.
mas, ku pake link nya ya.
tq.
i think facebook eat our time
Itu kan semacam social tool untuk konek dengan teman atau orang lain, hanya media memang bukan konvensional. That`s it kayaknya…
I choose number 3. How should I say if one of my workmates asking me “what’s your facebook’s profile?”?
We live in multi-dimensional world right now. Probably making friends from social network such as facebook could complete the ‘hungerity’ of human being like us (don’t us?)
Interesting! I think I can fill into #3 and #4. I wish I were the trendsetter!
Hahahahaha……….yes i agree. People even brought a Blackberry just to stay connected in Facebook!
But, yes, i think to meet people we know from the past is very interesting for some people..
Jadi yang jelas tren sesaat, abis pemilu nanti mungkin kurang aktifitas kawan-kawan di sana. mungkin???!!!
Facebook at this time just like Friendster in couple years ago.
Almost for fun and sometimes kill time bro..
Facebook beats friendster indeed. I think FB is only temporary trend.
I never join facebook yet. I don’t know if it can drive traffic to my site. Thank for the info.
I don’t know much about facebook, but i have already joined. Facebook is spent much time.
mlm bosss…!!!!
kok lama baru posting yang baru bosss mang ke mana nich…?
lets go facebook!! hehe
wah aku cuma ikutan aja nih ramein facebook
I just wish that the next trendsetter in social network is creating from Indonesia, and I do wish that there is more bombing than any other social network have ever been.
Btw mas, When after I gave comment to your posting and I’ll try to access your archive, there is still an error with bringing a message :
Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
* Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
What is really error about ? Is there an error from my connection or from yours ?
#from yours. it happens in latest firefox. when it happens try using IE instead. see here -> http://fatihsyuhud.com/2009/02/27/page-load-error-invalid-or-unsupported-form-of-compression/
join juga si aku ama facebook..
Terima kasih artikelnya, maaf sy blm berkenan utk join FB
to sharing & discuss, cari teman …
you know what?? i only know friendster… finding friends on net… i wonder why what is facebook… and there i found out, it’s like a friendster. and do you how rich the owner of facebook? a net of $1.5 billion dollar. a 24 year old owner.. wow!
Saya sendiri belum coba sih mas.. jadi belum banyak berkomentar..
awalnya males ikut arus, tp lama2 tergerus juga & walopun telat akhirnya punya juga account FB. lumayan… walopun cuman dikit bisa ktemu lg ma temen sekolahku yg jauh dikampung sono. Group & fasilitas become a fans-nya jg sangat brmanfaat.
Ga’ sukanya… ga’ bisa invisible jadi sering keganggu dgn chatroom-nya
I think..another facility like chat box is an interesting menu, there is not found in friendster..etc..i’d like it
I think..another facility like chat box is an interesting menu, there is not found in friendster..etc..i’d like it I GOT $$$ without facebook tools to promote
hehehehe…. same like you, I am also no.4
Mas! Saya sudah pasang banner link sampeyan, jika tidak keberatan haraf memasang link balik. Mas! Tentang Kontes SEO versi bang pogung177 gimana perkembangannya? Apa sampeyan ikut?
#saya gak pernah ikut kontes SEO apapun. jadi gak tau perkembangan.
Yap, just to drive traffic to my blog.
Mas, kalau ada waktu, silakan mampir ke blog Strategi + Manajemen. Jumlah feed readersnya ada 2,400. Saya punya obsesi, suatu saat blog Strategi + Manajemen bisa punya pelanggan/readers hingga 10,000.
Untuk meraih angka itu, saya bikin juga page di FB.
Thank …Mister
wah,kalo buat saya facebook tu lumayan berguna mas..bisa buat chat,trus bisa ktemu ama temen2 jaman duluuuuu buanget…ampe bisa bikin rencana reuni SD gara2 facebook..bisa upload foto2 lama trus dibagiin ama temen2..pokoknya beda buanget deh ama friendster..
mungkin menurut saya, orang banyak menggunakan facebook dikarenakan karena informasi dari mulut ke mulut. sebenarnya mungkin mereka tidak begitu mengerti akan seluk beluk facebook, termasuk saya.
saya sudah buat facebook saya, namun jarang saya buka.
buanyak bangeut photo, film, and another else, yang menguras kuota internet saya.
he…he…he….
wassalam.
nb.
kang saya sudah pasang linknya. trim’s
asyik ajah di FB sampe lupa waktu
Wew.. I will find your profil bro!
wah harus ikutan nih bikin facebook….
obamania??wew its cool eh?
heuu.. emang gara2 obama juga jadii marak fb..
fb ga bkl jauh nasibny seperti fs..
Thank’s infonya mas ……. bikin FB aaahhhh….
Saya baru buat akun di FB, itu juga diajak teman, jadi belum tahu buat apa, cuma ikutan aja deh.
for friend and businness maybe…
saya gabung di friendster karena diajak teman, awalnya sangat senang dan rajin mengupdate, tp lama kelamaan mulai jenuh karna semaikn banyaknya spam dan ‘impersonal’/memakai foto orang lain. Facebook sy tau dr teman juga, sementara masih wait en see tp lumayan banyak jumpa dengan teman semasa sekolah dulu karena di FB ini hampir semuanya mengisi identitas asli dan sesuai dengan foto di profile.
kang Agus ini alamat blogs nya Aa’…
mohon di linkBack
makasih banyak sebelummnya
Mohon di tuntun juga untuk membuat blogs.. yang bagus yang Kang…
Aa’ Ingin Ikutin Jejaknya Kang Agus… TUk buktiin bahwa para bloger di indonesia juga bisa mendunia…
Salam Bloger dari
Ardhi Aries
Two months ago I created FB account, but I do nothing on my FB. So I have no comment for it.
5) To keep in touch with friends and families – especially if you live miles apart from each others. As pictures can be uploaded easily – much easier that Friendster! – you could tell your friends and families what you’ve been up too.
I dont know exackly
It has bad side and good side. Like other technology, it depends on us whether to use the bad or the good side.
Facebook semakin menjadikan dunia maya menjadi ramai dan lambat laun menjadikan dunia nyata jadi sepi, karena orang lebih enjoy ber-society di dunia maya dibanding dunia nyata.
manfaatnya mungkin hanya untuk menambah pertemanan dan menyebar ukhuwah…
Fesbuk menyambung kembali silaturahmi dengan sahabat saya yang lama terputus, jadi terasa dekat lagi. Setiap hari kita bisa tahu apa yang sedang dilakukan teman2 di fesbuk melalui statusnya.
my reason of joining facebook is not among those 4 reasons you’ve mentioned above. I ‘ve joined facebook to find long lost friends, and the results was: I’ve found lots of my long lost friends in facebook.
FaceBook Bisa membuat orang2 ngak makan atau tidur kebayakan temen2 aku seperti gitu makaya megapa orang beralih ke facebook..?
padahal dulu yang getop friendster…???
Numpang Lewat
Demam Facebook saat ini mungkin karena “Barrak Mania Obama”, sehingga Indonesia pun saat ini sedang ngetrend FB.
Tapi apakah FB ini akan bertahan lama sebagai site pertemanan, atau tidak bertahan lama. Akan kita tunggu nanti setelah usai pilpres .
Klo Vania sich selain buat berteman ketemu tmn2 yg lama hilang juga buat promo link, blog, and business tentunya,
untuk mejeng via foto2 biar nemu teman
facebook byk game yg seru-seru
banyak gunanya ko facebook menurut saya. ktemu temen-temen lama, bikin grup, bersosialisasi, kenalan sama orang2 baru, promosi, bisnis etc.
Dan kayaknya facebook beda sama friendster dari segi pengembangan situs karena pembuatan aplikasinya telah dibuka secara luas. Jadi perkembangnnya ga sama dengan frienster
kalo menurut aku seh, FB bakal makin marak. khusus nya di indonesia, karena kalo diliat dari pemakai jaringan internet makin hari makin meningkat..so FB bakal meningkat seiring meningkatnya pemakai jaringan internet. Apalagi sekarang bisa memperbaharui status lewat HP..hehe bener ga?. maaf kalo salah
Pertanyaan yang menarik …
kalo saya untuk menambah temen …
biar menambah wawasan …
dan sebagai pelajaran …
salam
Awalnya saya bikin akun fesbuk hanya karena ikut – ikutan teman kantor saja, apalagi juga berita – berita di media massa semakin membuat penasaran.
Tapi paling tidak, di fesbuk saya bisa bertemu dengan sahabat – sahabat lama sekolah saya dulu. hehehe rupanya mereka pun sama juga; korban fesbuk.
i’m joining facebook for playing games. as we know, facebook have many nice applications that we can try for free. so i think this is one reason people want to join facebook
I use faceboook to interact with my old and current friends. It is amazing that this tools also help to connect with new friends around the world and help to drive traffic to your blog if used properly.
Facebook makes the world even smaller. I use facebook to keep in contact with all friends, share information and looking up for more information. Where you can find a better way to keep in contact with all your fellas, as people already mentioned above, a big chance to meet your old friends, and get in touch with them again! Facebook at all not a waste if you control it =).
Facebook just for fun, and meet with my friend.
I use facebook is to get frieng that I never meet for a long time.
so, it useful to keep touch with my friend although in long distance
Betul sekali kan ???????????
First time I signed up at facebook was because some friends in my community (b2w semarang) invited me. I found out that they started posting pictures of our activities in their account at FB (instead of at http://www.multiply.com while in fact ‘we’ used this site before). So, to be able to see those pictures (where I am involved too :-d) I needed an account at FB.
Second, out of the blue I found many other ‘Podungge’, relatives I have never met, since I was born and grew up in Semarang. I did not experience this at multiply, friendster, or HI5. No wonder then I accepted many invitations from relatives I have never known before.
Third, the same as you, I gave link to my blog in my FB account.
Fourth, the same as the others too, I found some long-lost friends who have moved out of town at FB. Perhaps during ‘FS era’ or the others, they were not using this networking site yet.
hmmmm.. buat saya, fb lebih sip dari fs mas. mungkin kalo dikategorkan ke kategori nomer 2. walo di fs sebenarnya aku juga gak terlalu aktif. yang pertama membuat saya tertarik di fb adalah fasilitas info (profile) yang bener-bener bisa menjadi online CV bagi kita. ditambah lagi fasilitas wall (status) yang menjadikan kita semakin bisa memberikan kabar ke pada temen-temen dan juga mengetahui kabar temen2. dan trakir adalah soal event managemen yang bagus di FB, membuat saya dan temen-temen bisa lebih asyik kalo mau bertukar info mengenai suatu event.
Yahh,..kalo saya sih Facebook buat cuci2 mata aja, liat foto2 cwcw yang cakep kalo lagi boring,…hihihihi, toh ketemu temen2 lama di facebook juga ujung2nya cuman nostalgia lagu lama jaman SD, SMP, SMA,…hahahhahaha,…udah lah yang pasti2 aja kalo saya sih,…ya begini ini,…BLOGGING.
Until now, I dot not make facebook account yet. I do not know why. Some friends ask meto open facebook account, because, thay said, in several days, there will hundred of people will connect with us.
they said, it’s fun
#5 to alter and caress my ego mas, and to find jodoh sometime he he he.
di satu sisi banyak kawan(mungkin yamg tadinya kita cari2 ada diFB),akan tetapi pada jam kerja atau pada jam kuliah FB jadi mengganggu(negatifnya)komp.jadi lama.mhs/i mencari literatur jadi terhambat(karena banyak yg FB-an,pada jam kerja karyawan lebih sibuk isi komentar2 di FB.Tq
with facebook we can meet alot of old friends that we can’nt see before……
I agree if that social networking is became one of reason that can give us useful thing, like make the good traffic to our blog or website.
facebook kill a time.
gimana kalo demam fatih syuhud huehehehe
Now I know why People like to join Facebook. This is easy to find friend and you can recomendation them to visit your link.
saya melihat bukan hanya sekedar trend, facebook juga menjadi candu baru. dan apa yang berlebihan itu tidak baik, apalagi tenggelam dan dikendalikannya.
iya… ikut ikutan juga pake facebook… biar gak mati gaya… hahahah
Uhm… i dont really like facebook… why?? because it isn’t mine
Well.. please use Facebook proportionally, it’s like coin with two different sides
In case of using facebook, I can be included to no.5. However, I am not a fanatic facebook user. I start to access it after finishing my work. The other interesting one for me about the function of facebook is what you always do. I want to try to drive traffic to my blogs through facebook.
ga pake persbook neh ga sempat
ngeblog aja enakkkk
facebook? itu mah ulama’nya yang show what alias sewot. mui kalah tenar sama facebook. orang tidak lagi minta fatwa ke mui, tapi sharing dari hati-ke hati sesama teman.
yang haram sudah jelas, begitu juga yang halal.
kalau ada yang remang2, terangilah
Just to drive traffic to my Blog using twitterfeed as you mention in your previous blog, however you rock buddy ! Many Thanks for your info about twitterfeed it works like a charm.
Trend sesaat ..
Fb:dipake baik ya baik, dipake jelek ya jelek.
tergantung orangnya.
lambat laun juga kemakan jaman.
Fb mah dibikin untuk baik ya baik, dibuat untuk jelek ya jelek.
tergantung pemakainya.
tapi lama lama juga kemakan jaman.
It is a social networking site much like myspace. You can search for people using their name or their email address. You can share photos.
haree genee ga adda faace booek?
Facebook is a must-have for everyone, especially for those people who often interact with friends abroad.
Facebook ini mungkin bisa jadi tren sesaat tapi lama ninggalinnya. Fitur2-nya menarik, ada chatting-nya yg malahan ditiru sama situs jejaring sosial yang lainnya.
Maybe Twitter can be the most competitor for Facebook.
jadi facbook ga penting dong?
pada ngidam facebook
Ass.Alaikum….Salam Kenal Sobat….Ia memang kelihatan, menurut saya FB sekitar hanya 20 % teman2 manfaatkan pada tempatnya, selebihnya hanya sekedar apa adanya…Ia benar apa kata teman2 sebelumnya bahwa tergantung personnya…..Ia mmg kalau Ngeblok beda karena butuh keterampilan ekstra (menulis), rajin kunjungi teman, betul-betul kunjungi beda fb, persisnya enak menanti…hehehehehehe….Jadi kelihatan ga terlalu butuh energi cari kesana kemari, oh banyak perbedaan antara FB n Blog…Salam kenal semua teman2 yang sempat mampir disini…Ayo ke Blog sy juga ya… ditunggu komentar n kritiknya….Sukses
Seneng bisa ketemu dengan teman2 lama lagi, mulai dari teman SD, SMP, SMA, dan kuliah. Menjadi silaturahmi yang sempat terputus.
males maen begituan.. Oiya mas,saya udah link blog mas di artikel saya,jika boleh,mohon di linkback ya.
makasih
Let me analyze my own reason(s) for joining FB:
1. Obamania? Definitely not, I wasn’t aware of the fact he’s got a FB account before you told me that.
2. Friendster diehard alumni?I barely sign in and run my FS account.
3. Pure trend followers? At first,yes..My pal sent an invitation mail to join FB,and I thought “why not? It sounds cool and hip.Everyone keeps buzzing on FB fever.”
4.Just to drive traffic to their blog? I didn’t run a blog when I signed up for it.
5.To keep in touch with friends and families? That’s the benefit I later found by having an FB account.
6. To find long lost friends? I did run into my elementary school pals on FB.Getting to know them once again as they have changed a lot!! Some of them even don’t look like who they were during the schol days at least as long as my memory serves.
You want me to add?
..Acting like real famous people disgusts me…
7. To impersonate idols/celebs
I spotted some accounts nicknamed with celebs’ names and profile photos. Seems they get obsessed too much with those celebs.Some of them posted statuses saying they were doing some shoots for the next season of their TV series
with facebook we coud find “teman lama” kita
Facebook is a famous social network which can be useful for various activities. In fact, human beings need social interaction either through internet or real lives. Sport activity can also become a facility to have social interaction in a real life.
Facebook memang menarik dan berguna. Sebagai salah satu alternatif buat drive trafik seperti yang ditulis Mr. Fatih. Bagusnya lagi it’s free ! Whew.
Nice info
How should I say if one of my workmates asking me what’s your facebook’s profile??
Facebook is okay. However there will be not so good if we play it too much.
Facebook is a powerful media of social bookmark. As a famous social networking, facebook can help build the traffic for the website. This article really inspire the bloggers.
kalo aku seh facebook cari teman, canda ma teman buat ngilangin stress karena mikirin kerjaan,,,
facebook itu sebuah fenomena….
yups..facebook saya pkir hanyalah sebuah tren sesaat.
Kita lihat saja apakah 5 tahun lagi facebook akan tetap menjadi situs jejaring sosial favorit, karena sekarang saja sudah banyak situs2 yang menawarkan jasa yang serupa ^^
Just For Play Mafia Wars….!!!
heheheh…
Baru-baru ini saya malah sudah menutup akun FB saya http://ratnarespati.com/2009/10/21/finally-i-hve-deactivated-my-facebook-account/
facebook dah gk menarik lgi….
Facebook untuk menarik traffik kayaknya menarik nih. Walaw belum pernah dicoba. Tapi banyak yang sukses dari sana. Sip infonya Mr.