With the new design you can actually modify how Facebook displays your imported blog posts. Through Facebook Notes settings you can choose to either just display the title of your posts, display a summary, or display the entire post as a whole.

Here’s how you set up how your blog gets displayed in Facebook:

1. On the right-hand side of Facebook after you log in, click on “edit” in the upper-right of the Applications box on the right side of the page.

2. On the following page, scroll down to Notes, and click “Edit Settings”.

3. A popup will appear allowing you to configure how your Notes display on your profile. On mine, under “Allow Notes to publish specific story sizes automatically without prompting, I made sure that was selected, and selected the “Full” option. “Full” means the entire story will be published. “Short” means a summary of the story will be published. “One-line” means only the title will be published.
4. Hit “Okay” and you’re done!

I’ve found that the more you import into Facebook the stronger likelihood you’ll get interaction around your blog posts in Facebook. My experience has shown that users generally don’t like to click outside of Facebook if they don’t have to. Visit my profile at http://jessestay.socialtoo.com and you can follow my blog posts there!

Basically a bunch of kids (yeah, I’m old) went to a restaurant in Australia and had a great time eating expensive food and drinking expensive wine… and then they all took off (under the guise of needing to smoke outside).

Losers.

Ah, but it gets good, since they were stupid losers.

The owner of the restaurant did some networking and found one of the punks on Facebook, complete with a picture of him and his girlfriend (who was also at the table).

Dorks.

Ah, but it gets better, since they worked at a restaurant not to far from the restaurant they walked out on.

You gotta read this story, and hope that it doesn’t define Gen Y, or most Facebook losers, er, users.

I joined her Group and get these messages daily (I think they are daily… they are pretty frequent):

Can you imagine getting a notice about what’s going to be on, and asking for input?  Check this out from two perspectives:

From the business owner, PR person:

Having access like this is awesome, and you/we are flattered to have the opportunity to share our wisdom and hope for the chance to say something like “I was on CNN” or “Veronica mentioned my product on CNN.”  We feel empowered and involved… and for CNN to make me feel empowered, that’s HUGE!

From the perspective of the content provider:

You get expert opinions, stories, etc. to add to your messaging and content, and you get the opportunity to help people feel involved with your stuff.  If you empower me, I feel appreciative and maybe even loyal to you!  Imagine what this can do for your relationship with your customers!

Here’s the image for the Group… notice, there are still less than 1,000 people in this Group, which means your voice might be heard (better than if they had over 100,000 people in the Group).

Cool Veronica, kudos for executing on this great idea!

Check out this part of Sam Lessin’s post:

To be clear, the key here is that the people that the cause promoter has “tagged” in the image are not actually in the image and have not actively lent their support to the message. Rather, the individual supporting the given cause is hijacking a friend’s name to broadcast a message to the friends of their friend. Follow?

The idea behind tagging photos, I thought, was to say “this person is in the picture.”  Sam is suggesting you can tag people who … maybe should view the picture… and you get the viral benefit of their network (Friends) seeing that on the feed.

Interesting. What do you think, is this something you’d feel comfortable doing?  If you got tagged like this would it tick you off?

This piece was written by Joy Jernigan… it’s a great read. If you are wondering what to do with all of those Friend requests from people you’ve never heard of, click on over.  Here’s the quote from me:

That about sums it up, doesn’t it?

click to go to the Facebook Group for Pizza Hut

A Pizza Hut Facebook Group?  Is it working for them?  Check this out:

Amazing.  There are over a thousand wall posts, videos, etc.  I love it.  Check it out here.

If you get a message from a Facebook “Friend” and it looks wierd, just DELETE IT. Be skeptical.  Curiousity is what funds antivirus companies… I’d rather miss a “hey, nice to see you here” email than click on something just to be sure and then fight for days or weeks to get rid of computer problems.

It’s a darn shame Facebook hasn’t cleaned this up yet, but for now, my advice on weird messages is to DELETE, DELETE, DELETE.

And, because of my open connection philosophy, I receive about 90% junk…. yeah, I know, I need to prune :p

Virgin Atlantic has sacked 13 of its cabin staff after they criticised the airline and some of its passengers on social networking website Facebook.

The airline, controlled by Richard Branson’s Virgin group, said the staff’s behaviour was “totally inappropriate” and “brought the company into disrepute”.

And continues,

“Following a thorough investigation, it was found that all 13 staff participated in a discussion on the networking site Facebook, which brought the company into disrepute and insulted some of our passengers.”

Yeah, go ahead and keep using Facebook as your personal place to rag on people.  Especially customers, prospects, bosses, etc.  I guess it’s a different kind of career management philosophy than what I’m used to :p

Read the whole Facebook fiasco here.  Virgin did the right thing.

“If you don’t know how to network in the first place, all social media can do is give you the chance to screw up to a much larger group of people in a much shorter amount of time.”

Oh my gosh. This sums up my hangup with people who are screwing it up.  Facebook, and Twitter, and handshakes and … it’s just they don’t know how to network in the first place!

“Hi, thanks for Friending me on Facebook, BUY MY STUFF!”

Or…

“Hey, I want to invite you to this totally useless Group or Event so I can make money off of you, after you hear all my wisdom, and you’ll then want to buy my upsell!”

Folks, go for the relationship first, and let the sale happen when it happens.  Maybe I suck at hard sales, and I’m all wrong.  Hold on, I gotta go prune some of those who are pretty aggressive at it.

And, if you want to read more on this topic, go pick up Never Eat Alone… it’s an awesome book on “building intimate relationships.”

My Friends connection strategy is quite open… you ask me to Friend you and I’ll reply.  I rarely, rarely, rarely ask someone to be a Friend, but because of my exposure (speaking, articles, blogging, etc.) I choose to just accept Friendships about 99% of the time.  The other 1% is clearly someone who I have no interest in (a super-weird, non-human name, or an animal, or something like that).

The problem with accepting all these Friends (I have around 1,200) is that many of them have taken some lame “get rich quick” or “Facebook marketing” class, and think that Facebook is the place to spam their networks with all kinds of notices (events, Group invites, etc.).

Whuh?  Actually, in our book we talk about using Facebook as a marketing platform.  So shame on me if I give you the idea that I want you to overly market to me.  What you should do is find out how to directly target your real audience, and get to a point where you leave everyone else alone.

In the email world it’s called opt-in, and there’s even double-opt-in.  What if, in the Facebook world, we only message people to hawk our warez if they’ve opted in?  That would be, those who opt-in to your Group or Page… or something like that.  Not every last person you are connected with.

Alas, now I have a new Facebook task: going to the Profile of spammers and clicking on the Remove from Friends.  It’s at the bottom-left of every Friend profile, and it looks like this:

Prune.  You’ll have a better experience.