Facebook Jail. If you’re a frequent Facebook user, you’ve heard of this figurative prison in which users who violate Facebook standards are held by being temporarily banned from posting, liking, commenting or sharing until Facebook feels like the user has learned their lesson. ...
Facebook or Instagram. Everyone seems to want you to pick a favorite as if one were better than the other. But is that really true? Is one platform better than the other? Not in our opinion. Actually, for us, Facebook and Instagram are like peanut butter...
What a year it’s been for social media marketing! This year’s campaigns have been more extra than ever--extra fun, extra user-friendly, extra engaging, and, for some, extra controversial (lookin’ at you, Nike and Snapchat). In part one of this two-part mini-series, we’re taking a look...
Three years ago, a European study found that teenagers were leaving Facebook for other social sites like Twitter, Instagram, and SnapChat. It was suspected that as older users began setting up accounts, teens sought a platform where they could hang out online with their friends without their parents seeing everything on their feed. This conclusion the led the anthropologist on the research team, Daniel Miller a professor of material culture of University College London to pronounce Facebook as “dead and buried” to the Millennial generation.
Companies often start out on social media confused and even a little overwhelmed. They’re looking at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Houzz, SnapChat, Tumblr and the list just keeps growing. How do you keep up with all these accounts and still get other work accomplished?
Earlier this year I sat in a marketing meeting led by an agency focused on helping Mississippi businesses (and really businesses across the Southeast) realize the potential of social media and digital advertising. One of the presenters made the comment, “Yes, Facebook is pushing businesses to spend money on advertising, but it’s really good for us as marketers. It affirms our position that social media is a relevant advertising media.”
