Your Mom Facebooks

Raise your hand if you found out a friend’s relationship status from Facebook? When is the last time you checked out someone’s pictures? Snooped around a recent party that you were not invited to? We are all guilty of checking out that new fling’s ex.

The sad truth is we rely more on the status updates than we do calling, emailing or even texting. I have gotten more information on my friends and co-workers from Facebook than I do in person. We have almost become lazy in relying on Facebook. Now instead of introducing yourself to your best friend’s roommate’s boyfriend, you can just check out his page and find out everything anyway. Who likes those awkward small talks about the weather anyway?

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, posted a blog stating that the booming social networking service is now ‘200 Million Strong’. The constant battle against Myspace seems to be coming to an end, however there are new viral addictions looming around the corner, twitter and flutter are creeping up. Facebook is still the strongest and seems to have the market on lock right now.

That being said Facebook is the quickest and cheapest way to market! Let’s start with status updates. Something as simple as writing a sentence on what you are doing or where you are going can cause a viral frenzy. If you started to think ‘oh Facebook isn’t my generation and I can’t possibly use that to hit my demographic’, well you would be wrong. Simply because my mom is on Facebook, in fact, my grandmother is on Facebook. My mother actually just told me that my brother’s best friend broke off his engagement because she found out from his mother on Facebook. If there are 200 million people on the social networking site my guess is you can find at least one of them in your target demographic, and if not, you will at least be able to find my mom.