Almost every website you’ll visit now also has an option to “follow on Facebook” or “retweet” on Twitter, and it seems that the two sites are EVERYWHERE. While the sites may have started as pure personal entertainment, they’ve grown into something much more influential. There are many great ways to use these networking sites in order to improve many aspects of your life, all of which involve connecting with people. We are living in a technological era that is changing and expanding all the time, and it’s important to utilize our resources in order to better your life.
With over 400 million active users, all over the globe, Facebook is the easiest way to connect with people online. Here are some ways that you can let Facebook help you:
1. Find your friends. Whether it be somebody you met the other day, or a childhood friend, Facebook makes it easy to keep in touch and connect or reconnect.
2. Share common interests. You can join groups or become a fan of different pages that represent what is important to you. In the process, you may find people with similar interests and shared goals.
3. Communicate. With the ability to send messages, write on walls, organize events, “poke,” and “like” items, you can easily talk to anybody at no cost.
4. Share. Pictures, videos, links, blogs, notes, you name it!! Share multimedia with your friends in a second.
5. Promote. Talk about what you care about, and use Facebook to promote it. You may be promoting a cause, a business, or your personal beliefs. Express your interests to 400 million people at the click of a mouse.
Twitter is also a way of connecting with people in a short to the point manner. Basically, it’s a site dedicated to status updates, but it has also become one of the easiest and most popular ways for businesses and individuals to share information with a wide audience. Here are some ways that you can use Twitter to improve your life:
1. Keep in touch with your friends. Let your friends know how what you’re doing and/or how you’re feeling. And you can let all your friends know all at once.
2. Make plans. Twitter is an easy way to mass communicate with people.
3. Get immediate feedback. Twitter can function as a tool that allows you to get advice about traffic, weather, or anything else from none only but your friends.
4. Share information. Twitter allows you to follow news, business, organization, and celebrity sites. This can help you stay on top of current events and pay attention to what’s important to you.
5. Stay in touch with the world around you. Now that practically every news source, television network, and corporate company has a Twitter, it’s easy to keep up to date with the constant flow of information coming your way.
My3Goals shares many of the aforementioned qualities, but also focuses on positivity. It’s an entire social networking site devoted to helping you find what you need to be your best self and support you in your growth. Through status updates, challenges, goals, and Q&A’s that are all based on staying positive and improving yourself, you can connect with people in a way that can only benefit you.
All the best,
Jane Lee
& Margo Winton
My3Goals Blog Manager