Being the last person in America and likely the world who doesn't have a MySpace or Facebook page, I'm not sure what this means exactly, but smarter people than me (such as Irish Fest director Erin Kiekbusch) assures me that it's a good thing. The Irish Fest MySpace page now has more than 1000 friends.
Wow. Buying a round at the pub is going to get really expensive.
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- Danny is a founder, past president, and creative director of the Kansas City Irish Fest. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, the greatest city in America. He's authored Tir na Blog since 2006.
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Man you gotta at least get on Facebook.
Facebook is one gigantic SCAM. Don't go near it. You MUST sign up to even LOOK at anything there and you AUTOMATICALLY give them permission to SELL anything they can find out about you to anyone they want for any amount of money they want.
Facebook is burning 20 million dollars a month and they get more and more desperate for you personal information every day because it's the only way they can stay alive.
If you DO join... do NOT fall for any of these "What kind of food I like" or "What I wanted to grow up and be" or "What Star Trek character am I" stupid surveys they are constantly bombarding their 'users' with. It's all part of the marketing scam. They add the 'results' of ANYTHING you do there to your 'marketing profile' and they sell ALL of it to whoever wants it, no questions asked.
Stick with MySpace.
It's 'safer'.
They also get their money from advertising revenue but they are NOT the blatant profiling/marketing/privacy munching MACHINE that Facebook is.
Forget the Facebook- get on Twitter.
That said, I'm heading over to be your friend. :) Oh, and booking our rooms now!
Take off the tin foil hat Kevin. It's quite ridiculous to call Facebook a scam. but you are probably a troll and/or a Myspace employee. I think with any of these sites people need to be careful about how much and what kind of information they put out there on the internet. Myspace, twitter, Google apps...those sites aren't any more or less "safe" than Facebook.
Any time you sign in to something you are giving away personal info. If you take a look at the side of your yahoo page or while your searching, did you ever wonder why you keep getting the little ads for the claddaugh ring - it's because you look for Irish "stuff" and that's an Irish thing they think you might want. Let's not forget tracking IP addresses as well. Believe me, working for an advertising company, we know how to find out what people like. Big brother really is watching, but it's not the one you were thinking of! :)
Kelly
JRP... I stand by my comment.
Put the hat of your choosing on and do just a LITTLE ( teeny-tiny ) bit of homework. Go read up on Mark Zuckerberg and what went on at Harvard in 2006 and then later in Palo Alto.
You are RIGHT... NONE of these 'Social Networking' sites are squeaky clean. They are ALL just basically front-ends for the marketing folks... but some of the them ARE worse than others, in that regard.
PS: I have nothing to do with MySpace. How 'bout you? Are you one of the thousands of paid marketers for Facebook?
I'm sensing that the opinions posted here aren't 100% focused on Irish Fest...
FYI We ARE on Facebook and Twitter. On the Blog's homepage, you can click on a link to get to all of our social media site. See you in cyberspace!
Irish Fest? What's that?? ;)
Forget anything I said.
Full speed ahead.
Have fun out there, kids, and try
not to stay out too, too late.
Oh... and don't forget...
never, EVER look both ways
when crossing
the street.
That just takes all the fun out of it.
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