Facebook The Anti Social Network

Well you guessed it; today my rant is going to be about Facebook. People in this day and age are spending more time on their phones than ever with a whopping 1.72 hours per day spent on social networking sites and with that number set only to increase over the next several years. Facebook is one of the largest social networking sites with 1.25 Billion active monthly users.
Now I know what your thinking, Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with friend's overseas and interstate, technically you are correct but for me the positives of Facebook are heavily outweighed by the negatives. Now stop for a second and look up from what your reading and look around at everyone you can see and count how many of them are on their phones. Now my guess is if your in a room of around 5-10 people, the number of people on their phones is between 3-6, so that's between 30%-60% of the people in that one room on their phones. Now I don't contribute this all to Facebook, other social networking sites are to blame too and also the invention of smart phones has made it too easy to access these sites at the touch of a finger. But the amount of time people spend scrolling down there news-feeds pointlessly looking for something to entertain them for a few seconds of their life is creating a very antisocial generation. Just the other day at university I was trying to have a conversation with someone and the whole time they were busy staring at their phone on Facebook scrolling through their feed to find out what everyone had got up to over the weekend. Lets be honest here most people spend 5% posting new content, 15% sharing funny videos, 40% scrolling through the news feed and 40% stalking other Facebook users photos. If we could cut back the time we spend on our phones we would be more productive and also be a better in social situations, but if we keep on with the trend of increasing more time on our phones and social networking sites we will find in the future people wont have the people skills to cope in social situations. Now I don't know about you but thats not how I wish to live my life, so from now on I am aiming to spend less time on my phone and more time living my life outside of the anti "social network".

Well that's all for today hope to have a new post up again soon.
Yours truly,
Luke Henderson

When Should You Post On Social Media?

Welcome back everyone I hope my Mothers Day post didn't scare too many people away :) For those that are still here the show must go on.

Today I'm going to give you a rough guide to the optimal posting times and days of the major social media platforms. For futher information click Quicksprout.

Facebook
Time: 1-3pm
Day: Thursday and Friday

Twitter
Time: 12pm, 6pm and 5pm
Day: See graph on Quicksprout

Pinterest
Time: 8-11pm
Day: Saturday

Instagram
Time: Off work hours
Day: Monday

Google+
Time: 9-11am
Day: Monday to Friday

The infographic from Quicksprout is a great rough guide for anyone looking to increase views and shares I highly recomended having a look at it :)

Yours truely,
Luke Henderson

Mothers Day Facebook Updates Are They Attention Seeking Or Just Being Thoughtful??

Hey everyone, first off id like to thank everyone who has read any of my posts because last night we cracked 1000 views so thank you to everyone that has been a loyal reader :).

How Facebook Made Me Feel Mothers Day

Now onto today's main topic Mothers Day Facebook updates! If you haven't been on Facebook over the last 24 hours here's a quick run down for you, Nearly 75% of my Facebook "friends" have posted a status about their beautiful mothers with either a picture or heart felt message or in some cases both on their wall for everyone to see how much they care right? Well Id like to think that's the case but something just seems off when I scroll down my feed and I find myself reading nearly identical "heartfelt" messages. Then I look at the photos and see that over half are the exact same poses or a slightly better version of the previous photo up the feed. So I asked myself, could this be that this is a competition to see who can show their Facebook friends that they love their mother more? or do they genuinely care? Ill let you decide what you think but for me I'm just going to spend that little bit of extra time talking with my mum instead of spending it trying out do someone on Facebook!

Yours always,
Luke Henderson

Find us on Facebook

Hi everyone, today I have a question for you. I'm wondering how effective do you think having the logo to my right on your menu's and business cards really is? comment below id love to see peoples opinions and thoughts

Yours always,
Luke Henderson