ocial media sites all on social media networks.
understand they are going
to be used as a marketing In some ways what has just been
tool. They are designed to described may be thought of as
accommodate marketing. Some users more like a community garage sale
may bemoan the notion that a or flea market, but site members
social media site has to be can be choosey about why they
subjected to blatant marketing allow to communicate with them.
tactics and I do admit they can
be annoying, yet it is this What this means is that in most
format that the world’s cases site members can block
twenty-somethings are gravitating individuals from commenting on
to. their website. Some sites even
allow you to ban certain
This is a marketplace of ideas, individuals from visiting your
random thoughts and fun links in site while others allow you to
an environment that is in so many develop your presence as a
ways ‘connected’ in a style that private ‘by-invitation-only’
is often defined as web 2.0 – the page.
next generation of media sites.
If someone visits your site and
If you spend any amount of time is very blatant about marketing
on a site like MySpace, FaceBook, their site without any real
Digg or other similar social indication they are interested in
media sites you begin to see how the page owner it may make sense
creative businesses have found a to remove them from a list of
way to carve out a piece of the friends. If they return with more
marketing pie. There are millions blatant advertising they can be
of ideas, products and services banned from visiting the page in
to promote and you can find them the future.
of a telemarketer.
There are some individuals who
have no problem allowing others
to post blatant marketing material on their pages while type="text/javascript">
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