{"id":967,"date":"2009-03-12T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2009-03-12T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:24:50","slug":"is-social-media-worth-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/is-social-media-worth-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Social Media Worth The Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an account on FaceBook and LinkedIn for quite a while now, but only recently have I started to use them. I also thought about Twitter, but decided that I really only have the time to concentrate on one of them. I picked LinkedIn for that because I thought it was geared more toward business and that&#8217;s really what I&#8217;m in it for.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if any of them will actually do me any good or just waste my time. I have already spent quite a bit of time working on my profile, answering questions and generally trying to be a good neighbor, but have only noticed a large increase in spam business newsletters in my inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The Nielsen Company is reporting that social networking is way up (big surprise) and has now passed email in Internet communication. Since I&#8217;m looking at social media in terms of helping my business I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s replacing legitimate business communication or is it mostly the jokes and chain email that your friends and family send to you. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s the latter, but I will keep my options open since it sometimes takes only one or two good new contacts to make a business.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielsen.com\/nielsenwire\/nielsen-news\/social-networking-new-global-footprint\/\">Read Social Networking\u2019s New Global Footprint<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an account on FaceBook and LinkedIn for quite a while now, but only recently have I started to use them. I also thought about Twitter, but decided that I really only have the time to concentrate on one of them. I picked LinkedIn for that because I thought it was geared more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[24,25,27],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}