Facebook doesn’t care what you think

You can moan and whine all you like about the world’s biggest social media platform.

Yet still in 2024, there’s no better way to leverage your skills, talents and messages than by using Facebook.

Effectively, that is.

In your profession, a reluctance to expose your authentic self to a potential audience of 3 billion active monthly users is pretty much commercial suicide.

Locking down privacy, not talking business on your profile, and making people jump through hoops to gain permission to engage with you seems rather perverse.

A bit like renting a shop in the busiest-of-busy high streets, filling it with beautiful things, and then blacking out the windows.

And locking the door so we have to ring the bell to get in.

Test your responses to commonly-held views about the world’s most social network:

1: Facebook spies on me!
A – That creeps me out
B – That means it can more easily connect me with people and stuff that might be useful

2: Facebook makes money from selling my data
A – That’s not fair or moral
B – That means it can afford to keep all the great networking functions completely free

3: Everybody’s on Facebook 
A – It’s really hard to stand out
B – When you do stand out, everybody’s listening

I could run the same logic on a dozen-or-so FB whines I’ve heard recently.

Fact is, you’re either an A-Leaver or a B-Lever.

See what I did there?

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