I seem to be running at adds with most of the other affiliates where this question is concerned. While I allow my affiliates to be-friend me on Facebook, I do not encourage it, nor do I use Facebook or even read it on a daily or weekly basis. I have several reasons for this.
I find that Facebook is very distracting, I can spend hours a day on it. I don't have that excess time. I also do not watch TV for the same reason. Time is money. Yes, I have lots of friends and family who use this media for all communication. They send good stories, great informative articles, family photos, events, etc. I post "share its" for products from TripleClicks and some product write-ups.
Since I have lots of friends and their children who write me, I have many different personalities that show up. Not all of them are family friendly. I have de-friended some of them, but also think that I might have a good influence on some of them, so I keep those even when I do not appreciate their comments or language. Should I encourage my PSAs to read my friends comments? Not most of them. Why waste the time?
Same for the games. I have several friends who spend hours everyday building pretend businesses and whatever. What if they spent that time playing SFIVILLE? I certainly do not wish for my teammates to play those games.
Also, SFI has provided us so very many ways to communicate with our teams, why take them out of the system and use this kind of "private" venue? I know it can be private or public. But why steer them out and away from SFI communication? SFI does encourage us to use our private email to contact our PSAs and CSAs but for a specific purpose to get around the lack of whitelisting and spam filters.
Therefore, I don't think we should further engage our team in using Facebook or other social media. Atleast not the social pages.
Facebook does have a provision for business accounts and Topical groups that can be used for advertising, but care must be used in regards to what you print, how you print it, and who you allow to join, and the moderation.
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I seem to be running at adds with most of the other affiliates where this question is concerned. While I allow my affiliates to be-friend me on Facebook, I do not encourage it, nor do I use Facebook or even read it on a daily or weekly basis. I have several reasons for this.
I find that Facebook is very distracting, I can spend hours a day on it. I don't have that excess time. I also do not watch TV for the same reason. Time is money. Yes, I have lots of friends and family who use this
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