To Friend or Not to Friend? That is the Question.
A lot of direct sellers have been asking me lately about friending on Facebook. They want to know who to friend and who not to friend and what to do when people you do not know personally ask to be your friend. Let’s talk about it.
Think of yourself as the admissions director to your own University of Facebook. You can only allow 5000 people to be accepted to your school. You want them to be the ones that most fit the kinds of students or friends you want. People that will be interested in the courses (your posts) and people that will most resonate with what the administration has to offer- your products and services.
To determine who is best suited for admission you need a strategy and a criteria. To create your strategy answer the following question.
Why are you on Facebook? For fun, to reconnect with your high school and college friends, to stay in touch with your team, to enroll more team members and hostesses? You are the only one who can answer this question.
2. Based on your answers for question #1 you can now create your criteria for who you let in your online network. If you know them personally and you like them –let them in. For people that you do not know personally they have to meet your criteria, meaning they fall into one of the groups of the kind of people you want to connect with. They are people that meet your hostess profile or your client profile or your team member profile. This will exclude people outside the country for most of you. This might exclude men for some of you.
This also means if you come across people you would like to add to your network you can friend them too. I suggest always including a note about why you would like to be their friend for a higher approval rating.
You can only let 5000 people into your exclusive network admit them wisely. Happy friending.
Comments
Great image, Catarina– The University of Facebook! I’ve expanded my vision of who’s in my FB University by including not only friends & family who enjoy staying in touch– but also people I’m meeting who are interested in what I’m doing & like to support me (as I’m interested in what they’re doing & want to support them).
Thanks for the clarification!
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