{"id":1099,"date":"2010-04-10T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T19:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2010-04-10T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T19:31:01","slug":"no-i-will-not-fan-you-your-brand-or-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"No. I will not fan you, your brand, or your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No. I will not fan you, your brand, or your blog.<\/strong> I find it funny that quasi-famous bloggers feel the need to create a Facebook &#8216;Fan&#8217; page for themselves. Sure, many people are well-respected, followed by hundreds of thousands of individuals, and want to interact with them all (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matt.mullenweg\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gary\">Gary V<\/a>), but the majority of you do not; a few hundred or few thousand &#8216;fans&#8217; are worthless (prove me wrong?). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffwidman.com\/blog\/\">Jeff<\/a> may disagree, but I see no purpose in becoming a &#8216;fan&#8217; of a friend&#8217;s blog, or their brand, or their product, or whatever on Facebook. That only serves that individual&#8217;s own ego and their desire to grow some metric that rarely translates to value (monetary, goodwill, etc.). Social media: don&#8217;t just do it because everyone else is. <small>(I realize this is not new thinking, but I wanted to publish it so my stance is clear. Feel free to point your friends here when you get a &#8216;Fan&#8217; request.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. I will not fan you, your brand, or your blog. I find it funny that quasi-famous bloggers feel the need to create a Facebook &#8216;Fan&#8217; page for themselves. Sure, many people are well-respected, followed by hundreds of thousands of individuals, and want to interact with them all (Matt Mullenweg and Gary V), but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,9,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","category-internet","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}