Facebook will rule the world

... or at least the internet.

Article on how companies are shifting away from their own communities and working within existing online communities like Facebook. Not sure I agree with everything in the article, but it's an interesting thought. 

Link: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=142765

We have a couple facebook contacts with some of our oversees vendors on personal accounts. It's quicker to get a hold of them with a question that way than to use company email or a phone call. People ignore work email, but not a facebook message. I'm just waiting to see when collection companies start trying to use it to get payments instead of phone calls.

my personal page is my business page, not by design. I'm doing a photo shoot with two girls Saturday. Both want to use the images on yoga and health facebook and myspace pages. I do expect a bit of a surge of visits... [grin] one of them has 430 friends and the other 2,645

Does that mean that Facebook might be a trend like MySpace? Some things come, hit hard, and then slowly disappear. Any thoughts?

MySpace does seem to be dying out a little, although it's still a heavily visited site.  You just don't hear as many kids talking about their MySpace pages as you do their Facebook pages.  I really think it's the type of site that'll be really influential over the next few years, not necessarily a specific social site. 

My problem with all of this mess is that's it's hard to keep up with everything coming in.  I've got several email addresses for different projects, although I've started consolidating them and only use 2 or 3 as actual email accounts.  Everything else just forwards.  Add to that a Twitter account, Facebook, forums, and all sorts of other stuff it's hard to keep track of when you said what to who, and where you said it.  I do like being able to keep up with people as easily as we can now though. 

I know what you mean about keeping up. My makeup artist is a busy person and doesn't sit at the computer all day like I do. So when I need to find out her schedule for a shoot I text her. I forget what I asked and what she said... email is easier for me to keep track of.
I have several emails that all forward to my comcast account. I also have a gmail account that all my business emails are forwarded to for backup.
A lot of time is spent communicating and I don't even use my Facebook account.