Mouse hasn’t quite recovered yet. She decided to make herself scarce for the time being. Devil had a long conversation with her yesterday, and he reported back to us – while she has stopped crying, she is not ready yet to face the crowd again.
“So what is happening with our Facebook page then?” Socialite asked, more interested in publicity than in Mouse‘s wellbeing. “It is still half finished, isn’t it?”
“Don’t worry” Devil said, “I have offered to take care of that and I kept the ball rolling.” And then he showed us what he had done with instructions from Mouse. He is feeding the blog straight into Facebook. The others were reasonably impressed, except for Foreign Correspondent who had to point out that Mouse accused him of rehashing this blog on his German site. “So, what are you doing on Facebook then? Isn’t that just another form of recycling?”
“I am going to put some background images up. Like us in context. You know, us hanging around the house and things like that. And I will show some images from the studio – Dietlind permitting of course! We could have our beauty competition, once I figure out how to do it. Don’t worry, Foreign Correspondent, it will be different. But give me time! You know I am a bit of a Luddite.”
They were all very excited about the prospect of communicating with friends once they have some. Then they looked at me and Devil asked: “Why don’t you have a Facebook page? You could share us with your friends.” I shook my head. “As if I didn’t share you with my friends already!” I said, reminding them that there is not only this blog here, but also a book and postcards and a calendar. And I can’t stop talking about the Dedes anyway. “I am starting to drive my real friends bonkers” I said with a smile. “No, I won’t have a private Facebook page!”
What the Dedes are doing is their thing. I won’t interfere, but I am starting to worry about the time they spend on the computer. I hardly have a chance to use my own laptop. First there is Mouse, who does all her administration on the computer, then Foreign Correspondent who translates the blog into German and now Devil started this Facebook thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if L’Artiste wanted to have a LinkedIn presence next.
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Devil knows the people . There are many who never read blogs but always ” on” at fb!
Yes, he has finally convinced me. As long as he does the work…. I hope it is not like getting a dog and I am left feeding it in the end :)
This is a dilemma indeed. I’ve had similar requests to start a facebook page for my blog. The idea is that one will feed the other. But I concur that this is a lot of time to spend in front of the computer especially if your day job also involves some computer usage. I can personally tell that my eye sight has been affected. I’ve resisted the facebook route in favor of the blog with the hopes that the people who find me won’t mind reading about a thousand words of text per post.
I don’t have much experience with Facebook yet. But the feeding is very simple and I guess it is the easiest part. Once they click on the feed, the readers end up on the blog. After talking to a lot of people, I agree now, that there are many out there who never look at blogs, but are constantly on Facebook. I will make a mental note and report back to you with my experiences in due time.