My Facebook secret is out…

July 14, 2007 By

Sebastien Provencher, senior manager strategy and business development at Yellow Pages Group, Canada’s leading directory publisher, figured out what I was doing on Facebook in a post that says “Robert Scoble is Media.”

If he had stopped there he would have only figured out half of the story. But he ends up writing “I am media as well.”

Bing! Bing! Bing!

See, what’s cool about Facebook is that for the first time I can see all of you and anything you publish on your Facebook profile also comes to ME.

In five words he nailed Facebook and why this thing has such huge value.

Facebook makes my blog seem very one-way. I can’t see anytime one of you writes something, or puts some media up, even when you do it on your own blogs. Facebook makes our media a lot more two-way.

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  • http://www.beercosoftware.com Chris

    “But what I don’t get is this, Facebook has been around for like 4-5 years, probably longer”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

    3 years. Facts suck right.
    I’m done trying to pick apart VC voodoo though.
    The best thing is to ignore them and continue evolving in the real world.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    SG: I am not paid to write about facebook. Seagate is my only sponsor.

  • http://scobleizer.com Robert Scoble

    SG: I am not paid to write about facebook. Seagate is my only sponsor.

  • http://www.prohiphop.com/ Clyde Smith

    Aren’t you the one that said they were taking an email sabbatical of some sort?

    Between twitter and facebook, I can see why.

  • http://www.prohiphop.com Clyde Smith

    Aren’t you the one that said they were taking an email sabbatical of some sort?

    Between twitter and facebook, I can see why.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly Robert, on the web we all mediate each other. Your linkblog is on my reading list. If mine was on yours, you’d have seen this last week:

    http://epeus.blogspot.com/2007/07/editing-shows-respect.html

  • http://epeus.blogspot.com Kevin Marks

    Exactly Robert, on the web we all mediate each other. Your linkblog is on my reading list. If mine was on yours, you’d have seen this last week:

    http://epeus.blogspot.com/2007/07/editing-shows-respect.html

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Kevin: actually I +did+ see that. Even if I didn’t read your blog (I subscribe) it also popped up on a Google Blog search for Podtech.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Kevin: actually I +did+ see that. Even if I didn’t read your blog (I subscribe) it also popped up on a Google Blog search for Podtech.

  • http://www.andrehedetoft.com/ André Hedetoft

    Bob: That’s an awesome idea! I’d love that in one way or another!

  • http://www.andrehedetoft.com André Hedetoft

    Bob: That’s an awesome idea! I’d love that in one way or another!

  • http://paydotcom.com/r/12966/troche_inc/1353238/ jerry

    facebook is a great way to view others opinions while articulating your own.

  • http://paydotcom.com/r/12966/troche_inc/1353238/ jerry

    facebook is a great way to view others opinions while articulating your own.

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  • reality checker

    “Silicon Valley is the world’s most powerful economic engine.”

    Excuse me while I clean the coffee I’ve just splurted over my keyboard.

    Your statement might be true in your microcosmic view of the world, but in the real one? Got facts to prove this? Last time I looked there weren’t many oil fields in San Jose.

  • reality checker

    “Silicon Valley is the world’s most powerful economic engine.”

    Excuse me while I clean the coffee I’ve just splurted over my keyboard.

    Your statement might be true in your microcosmic view of the world, but in the real one? Got facts to prove this? Last time I looked there weren’t many oil fields in San Jose.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Reality: OK, I guess I should have added “intellectual capital” to that list.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Reality: OK, I guess I should have added “intellectual capital” to that list.

  • http://sierraleone.wordpress.com/ Sierra Leone

    It’s a great idea and I like it. FB has definitely become a platform and is no longer a pure social network in the original sense.

  • http://sierraleone.wordpress.com Sierra Leone

    It’s a great idea and I like it. FB has definitely become a platform and is no longer a pure social network in the original sense.

  • http://www.itasveer.com/ Ashish

    I was reading Asimov’s Foundation Edge – in which there is a planet called Gaia – a superorganism which comprises humans, trees, plants et al. So anytime someone asks a Gaian organism, ‘Who is Gaia?’ – they go ‘I am Gaia’. The also use pronouns in the following manner – ‘I/We/Gaia would like to go to the toilet’. The ‘Robert Scoble is media’ bit sounds too much like those Gaia fellas. I can already imagine reading Scoble next post which goes ‘I/me/media approve of the iPhone…’. Or Sebastien’s, or mine for that matter.

  • http://www.itasveer.com Ashish

    I was reading Asimov’s Foundation Edge – in which there is a planet called Gaia – a superorganism which comprises humans, trees, plants et al. So anytime someone asks a Gaian organism, ‘Who is Gaia?’ – they go ‘I am Gaia’. The also use pronouns in the following manner – ‘I/We/Gaia would like to go to the toilet’. The ‘Robert Scoble is media’ bit sounds too much like those Gaia fellas. I can already imagine reading Scoble next post which goes ‘I/me/media approve of the iPhone…’. Or Sebastien’s, or mine for that matter.

  • Preston

    @Chris #26 – I said “probably longer, I don’t know.” The point is, THIS STUFF ISN’T NEW!! This stuff has been around long enough for me to get two graduate degrees. Why are we talking about facebook? Sure, the google reader integration with facebook, that’s new, but only because google reader. That’s a cool post. But there’s like 10 posts on facebook in the past couple weeks (I haven’t fact-checked that, just saying what it feels like). I guess there’s not much else to talk about right now.

  • Preston

    @Chris #26 – I said “probably longer, I don’t know.” The point is, THIS STUFF ISN’T NEW!! This stuff has been around long enough for me to get two graduate degrees. Why are we talking about facebook? Sure, the google reader integration with facebook, that’s new, but only because google reader. That’s a cool post. But there’s like 10 posts on facebook in the past couple weeks (I haven’t fact-checked that, just saying what it feels like). I guess there’s not much else to talk about right now.

  • http://hellobeautifullove.wordpress.com/ hellobeautifullove

    Everyone keeps talking about facebook! I need to check it out.

  • http://hellobeautifullove.wordpress.com hellobeautifullove

    Everyone keeps talking about facebook! I need to check it out.

  • http://www.smallbiztechnology.com/ Ramon Ray

    Plaxo is IT – ladies and guys. It automatically lets you see what those in your plaxo rolodex are posting!!!! Way cool

  • http://www.smallbiztechnology.com Ramon Ray

    Plaxo is IT – ladies and guys. It automatically lets you see what those in your plaxo rolodex are posting!!!! Way cool

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    I find importing your blog to notes on facebook very useful. Your friends and network are always updated whenever there is a new post.

  • http://www.mutiny.in mutiny

    I find importing your blog to notes on facebook very useful. Your friends and network are always updated whenever there is a new post.

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    I realize that more local businesses are increasing their ad budgets towards the Facebook direction.

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    I realize that more local businesses are increasing their ad budgets towards the Facebook direction.

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