One free feathercoin per person who can...
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[quote name=“Bishop” post=“46295” timestamp=“1387487680”]
1 FTC to spam friends, uh, no. I understand the idea behind getting it out there, but $0.27 is hardly worth the time, let alone the effort, and certainly the backlash from my friends list. No thanks.
[/quote]First of all inviting friends to a facebook event is not spam. Second what backlash? I get invited to crap all the time and it doesn’t bother me and third its not just for the free feathercoin but also in support of feathercoin and getting it out there to new eyes. Negativity will get this currency nowhere…
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[quote name=“FTClover” post=“46300” timestamp=“1387488250”]
[quote author=Bishop link=topic=6216.msg46295#msg46295 date=1387487680]
1 FTC to spam friends, uh, no. I understand the idea behind getting it out there, but $0.27 is hardly worth the time, let alone the effort, and certainly the backlash from my friends list. No thanks.
[/quote]First of all inviting friends to a facebook event is not spam. Second what backlash? I get invited to crap all the time and it doesn’t bother me and third its not just for the free feathercoin but also in support of feathercoin and getting it out there to new eyes. Negativity will get this currency nowhere…
[/quote]Depends on your definiton of spam, but I would consider mass invites to be spamming my friends list. Second, I can speak for who my friends are and I know if I were to invite each and every single one of them, they would feel negative about it. Perhaps yours do not care just like you do not care, but it doesn’t change the fact that people generally view mass invites as spam (and as such, view it negatively). I understand the desire to get the currency out there, hell I continue to mine it, but I feel there has to be better ways of doing it than resorting to this. You said it yourself, negativity will get this currency no where–if that’s what people feel from being spammed then you’re doing more damage than good.
You’re free to disagree with my logic as I am to yours. I would very much like to see some value return to FTC–currently a third of what it was just a week or so ago.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“46257” timestamp=“1387483094”]
I’ve got something like 25,000+ FB friends, but I disabled my account. Sorry. :(
[/quote]Facebook isn’t limited to 5000 friends maximum anymore ?
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[quote name=“Bishop” post=“46295” timestamp=“1387487680”]
1 FTC to spam friends, uh, no. I understand the idea behind getting it out there, but $0.27 is hardly worth the time, let alone the effort, and certainly the backlash from my friends list. No thanks.
[/quote]It’s not really about the money is it? He’s just trying to raise attention for FTC via FB.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“46263” timestamp=“1387484014”]
[quote author=FTClover link=topic=6216.msg46258#msg46258 date=1387483702]
You know you can actually enable it again just by logging in? :)
[/quote]Yeaaaaaahhhhhhh… I disabled it for a reason though, and that reason hasn’t changed. Once you break up with a technology that you used to have a passion for, you really can’t go back. It’s just never the same. Besides, I’m not sure my current mistress would understand why .33 cents worth of crypto-currency (at current market valuation) is worth the heartache.
But keep up the good work!
[/quote]I am one curious boy right now, LOL!
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[quote name=“Cryptolator” post=“46312” timestamp=“1387491827”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=6216.msg46257#msg46257 date=1387483094]
I’ve got something like 25,000+ FB friends, but I disabled my account. Sorry. :(
[/quote]Facebook isn’t limited to 5000 friends maximum anymore ?
[/quote]Not for fan pages.
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[quote name=“Pryderi” post=“46316” timestamp=“1387492699”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=6216.msg46263#msg46263 date=1387484014]
[quote author=FTClover link=topic=6216.msg46258#msg46258 date=1387483702]
You know you can actually enable it again just by logging in? :)
[/quote]Yeaaaaaahhhhhhh… I disabled it for a reason though, and that reason hasn’t changed. Once you break up with a technology that you used to have a passion for, you really can’t go back. It’s just never the same. Besides, I’m not sure my current mistress would understand why .33 cents worth of crypto-currency (at current market valuation) is worth the heartache.
But keep up the good work!
[/quote]I am one curious boy right now, LOL!
[/quote]Yeah actually Kevlar what have you been up to? hahaha
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[quote name=“Pryderi” post=“46316” timestamp=“1387492699”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=6216.msg46263#msg46263 date=1387484014]
[quote author=FTClover link=topic=6216.msg46258#msg46258 date=1387483702]
You know you can actually enable it again just by logging in? :)
[/quote]Yeaaaaaahhhhhhh… I disabled it for a reason though, and that reason hasn’t changed. Once you break up with a technology that you used to have a passion for, you really can’t go back. It’s just never the same. Besides, I’m not sure my current mistress would understand why .33 cents worth of crypto-currency (at current market valuation) is worth the heartache.
But keep up the good work!
[/quote]I am one curious boy right now, LOL!
[/quote]Alright…
I started using Facebook when you had to have a school email account. So I hacked a CSUN server, and gave myself one. They wouldn’t discover my hack for another year, but by then it had opened up to anyone. People were encouraged to friend each other as a way of meeting new people.
Then Facebook apps happened. And boy did that suck. They had a very specific and limited use, and spam was pretty much off the hook. But it was the new way to publish games, and so I did. Well, more specifically, my game studio did under my direction. Us vs. Them, Frenemies, Wonder Hearts, Fools Gold… we even made the front page of Slashdot on April 1st with one of our jokes. We were working on a dating site for WoW users that was a play on our slogan, “Together We Game”, called “To Get Her We Game”. Popularity was the new currency, and we were making it in droves.
But the platform sucked so bad, that Facebook had to change it. Often. Sometimes daily. Often without warning, or proper documentation. You could spend a month developing a new feature, launch it, and 2 days later Facebook would disable the core functionality the new feature relied on. Then the wall format changed, and suddenly Facebook apps were pretty much worthless, and the downhill slide continued.
So we got out of Facebook, and eventually sold the studio. But Facebook continued to be popular, so I stuck with it. Until the celebrities showed up. Suddenly fan pages were the new norm, and my wall was filled with pictures of people’s meals.
It used to be that when you invited people to an event, and they responded, it meant they would show up. It used to be that if someone tagged you in a post, they would read it and respond. It used to be that Facebook gave us a way to keep up to date on what was important in our friends and families life. It brought us closer together as a community, and enriched our understandings of each other.
Those days are past. Now it’s a marketing tool for products and brands. Gone is the intelligent conversation, replaced with an endless stream of pictures of cats and advertisements for things I really don’t need.
I will not be going back to Facebook, because Facebook doesn’t value me or what I want in a social network.
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Now that’s what I call a good story, thanks!
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[quote name=“Bishop” post=“46295” timestamp=“1387487680”]
1 FTC to spam friends, uh, no. I understand the idea behind getting it out there, but $0.27 is hardly worth the time, let alone the effort, and certainly the backlash from my friends list. No thanks.
[/quote]Why even reply if you don’t want to get involved in what he’s doing, also I’m sorry but your post comes off very negative.
I would be up for this but I don’t use Facebook, I do try to spread the word much as I can though.
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That was some good reading! I agree with you on that one… but at least its not google+ haha
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I have been thinking about this initiative and I think it’s great that we raise awareness of our currency if our intention is long term sustainable growth in adoption. Where it may invite criticism is if people taking part are seen to be ‘selling out’ their friends.
This argument is often made because it’s so difficult to keep a message relevant when sent out to a large number of people. How does the person inviting their 1,000 friends know that it will be interesting to each and every one of them?
But it seems to me that what FTClover is inviting them to is an event, not our actual page (therefore not violating FB’s terms) and that event is a call to action that involves people using their personal billboards (FB avatars) as advertising space. Which that person would have due time to consider.
As long as the outcome is lots of people learning about something they might be interested in rather than wasting their time with an unsolicited message that they weren’t expecting I think we’re ok but I will take feedback from the rest of the community and consider any counter arguments.
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This is often described as Permission Marketing vs Interruption Marketing. Interruption Marketing is viewed as bad based on the assumption that advert is just a recommendation from someone you don’t trust. And therefore wastes people’s most finite commodity; time. Because we never get it back again anything that ‘steals’ it can be considered theft by people like Doc Searls et al. Though this viewpoint is still on the fringe of thought and most companies regularly use up people’s time in order to drive up sales.
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I still have yet to give the first free feathercoin… what gives?
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How common is for someone to have >1,000 followers? I have noticed that our Twitter followers have
[quote name=“FTClover” post=“46488” timestamp=“1387557193”]
I still have yet to give the first free feathercoin… what gives?
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“46501” timestamp=“1387561795”]
How common is for someone to have >1,000 followers? I have noticed that our Twitter followers have
[quote author=FTClover link=topic=6216.msg46488#msg46488 date=1387557193]
I still have yet to give the first free feathercoin… what gives?
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[/quote]I suppose… I do have a fb page with over 3000 friends which I’ve invited all to and also have a twitter withabout 2000 followers which I have yet to utilize… but its entirely possible for many people to have that many friends. .
Maybe I should lower the requirement to 300 ???
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You could also invite people to join your event and explain to people if they are worried about offending their friends get to them give an explanation in a post to tell people why this is important.
People don’t mind being interrupted if the message important to someone, which in this case it is to us. But as I have quoted before “People don’t buy [i]what[/i] you do they buy [i]why[/i] you do it.” (Simon Sinek).
If the message you are giving people feels serendipitous (something like a happy accident), like "oh this wasn’t what I was looking for but now I know about it I am glad I was told - then I think you are on to a winner.
[quote name=“FTClover” post=“46509” timestamp=“1387564439”]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=6216.msg46501#msg46501 date=1387561795]
How common is for someone to have >1,000 followers? I have noticed that our Twitter followers have
[quote author=FTClover link=topic=6216.msg46488#msg46488 date=1387557193]
I still have yet to give the first free feathercoin… what gives?
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[/quote]I suppose… I do have a fb page with over 3000 friends which I’ve invited all to and also have a twitter withabout 2000 followers which I have yet to utilize… but its entirely possible for many people to have that many friends. .
Maybe I should lower the requirement to 300 ???
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[quote name=“hangercure” post=“46347” timestamp=“1387499910”]
Why even reply if you don’t want to get involved in what he’s doing–
[/quote]Because communicating [i]why[/i] something isn’t working is very important to negate that non-interest or laziness argument that will come up later after someone’s project has been spurned.
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The feathercoin price against bitcoin has been very stable the past week or so… is it always like that? And the ftc I’ve put aside for this reward still hasn’t been touched!! Come on people ::)
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“46263” timestamp=“1387484014”]
Besides, I’m not sure my current mistress would understand why .33 cents worth of crypto-currency (at current market valuation) is worth the heartache.
[/quote];D