How conscious are you of the
statuses you post on Facebook? Do you know how many Statuses you have posted
since your Facebook birthdate? In August 2012, this social media application
called Social Me, published by a company called Zeebly launched and created a
patent to gain access to a copy of the data that is exposed on Facebook. The
data is collected and put together using statuses, likes, post times, friends,
and many other things that help discover the lives and personalities of the people
who use Social Me.
Social
Me captures data from a Facebook profile and creates an infographic of a person
and explains their life. An infographic is a visual illustration of information or data that is projected
to display multifaceted information quickly and clearly. Social Me
doesn't take the information posted on Facebook at face value, rather it goes in depth and infers the meaning behind statuses, comments, likes and
linguistics used by an individual and interprets it in a statistical sense. For
example, in the image below
you will see a bar chart created by Social Me, which analyzes my personality
qualities, based off my status posts.
Social
Me allows for one to realize and acknowledge how they are viewed from a
different perspective on who they are and their personality. Representation in
the social media world is important and if simple things like a Facebook status
can be viewed negatively, someone will portray you as such. (That someone can
be an employer) In the Social Media Bible, Lon Safko describes the importance
of closely analyzing communication strategies in social media and how a person
or company is being portrayed within in different demographic groups. Safko analyzes
these communication strategies by answering the following questions in relation
to different demographic situations:
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What is the description for the demographic group?
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Who is your persona?
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What is your style?
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What is your message?
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What is your frequency?
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What is your call to action (conversation)?
These
questions are valuable to analyzing a company or an individual in the
professional world. Yes, Social Me might just be an analyzing machine but in
the end, these questions can also be answered in an individual basis with the
analytical and statistical data provided. Social Me is quite interesting, easy
to use and mostly accurate for most people.
If you want to try out Social Me, please visit http://www.zeebly.com/social_me
And
sign in with your Facebook username and password.
After
trying Social Me
1)
Do you think it’s an accurate test and can you agree with the
analytical results?
2)
What is one thing that caught your attention about Social Me?
References:
, Lon, and David K. Brake. The social media bible: tactics, tools, and strategies for business success. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Print.
I have never heard of Social Me, but I decided to try it out for this blog. I don't really think it's an accurate test about who I am from my statuses on facebook. My personal qualities are "ambitious" and "optimistic". While, I do agree with my given qualities, I do not think that my statuses show that these qualities are the strongest compared to the rest. One thing that caught my attention were the interesting facts about me. "Alexa is more optimistic than 98% of people" and "Alexa is more of an achiever than 98% of people" definitely boosted my ego a little!
ReplyDeleteI see you an achiever as you dare to take my social media class after you took my HR class.
DeleteI agree with you Alexa! there are somethings on the analysis that does not really match my qualities but i like to think that some of them do. My top keywords really describe me and how i am when it comes to Facebook. If I ever post a status on Facebook its most likely a quote or something that is relevant to my interests.
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