Nicholas Montgomery/

Why You Should Accept Everyone on Facebook

I’ve always been an open person and willing to share experiences in my life with others. When I made my Facebook account and I was entering my phone, school, interests and pictures I didn’t have a problem. When it asked me if I wanted to add a bunch of people it found when I entered my old school when I was in grade 4 I was a bit concerned.

For one, I discovered that they really can find out a lot more than I intend to share and you really have to be careful what you enter online.

By the time I realized my information was online I had about 200 friends. Not only did I go in and delete information that I felt was too sensitive, but I deleted people I hadn’t met in real life or seen/made contact with in years.

Now that was year ago when I deleted all of those friends, and honestly I regeret it. Right now I have a video podcast, a website and 400+ friends checking Facebook once a week at least. What does that mean? Those people sent you friend requests because they want to see what your up to and you can use that to promote your products.

I’ve got 400 friends on Facebook and about 375 followers on Twitter. When I post a link to a new episode of my podcast on both networks, I get almost double the click rate (amount of people clicking on the link) on Facebook. Why?

When you post a link in your status on Facebook it appears on every of your friend’s homepage. If one of your friends has 500+ friends who are active, it probably won’t stay on the top of their homepage for long, but it’ll appear next to your name on your profile, next to your name in Facebook Chat, and could be displayed on “Highlights”, making all of your friends see it, and even some of their friends you don’t even know.

What I’m trying to get out is Facebook is an amazing tool for promoting your website or product. I just went over if posting a link on your status. You could also make a Facebook Page which people can fan. If your friends with someone who fans that product it’ll be displayed under the ads advertisers pay for. It’ll appear in everyone’s news feed that, “Nicholas Montgomery has became a fan of Blastr, ” and the person’s profile.

I could give countless examples of how different aspects of Facebook are very powerful to share things with your friends.

If you read this the first half of this and have already logged to Facebook and added 50 random people hoping a few would accept and you’d be able to get some more traction on that next blog post, you can’t undo that, but if you were thinking, don’t do it

Don’t be a spammer and blast links. Engage in conversations, help people out who are new, comment on photos – basically just be active and people will find you. When they come to you and send you a friend request, you’ve acquired one more person who’s going to be paying attention to you.

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