However, staying informed about the life of your friends and acquaintances surely is not the only purpose of such websites. Publicizing yourself and promoting your product is another point of these sites as many real estate agents have found out. The times when a billboard or a little advertisement in a newspaper was enough for propagation of one's work or business are long defunct and they will never come back. Internet is THE tough device now. If you browse the internet, you will see lots of articles with tips on how to use, and promote yourself, on social networking sites.
Of course it's much more time consuming for older generations to get used to all the hundreds of new websites, types of writing, commenting and all the related tasks. Our children seem to know it somehow spontaneously, but for us, it might take a while to suss out how everything works. We stick with it and try our hardest to study it all. I surmise lots of of my fellow realtors have the same reactions.
Using the internet, writing on social websites and finding interesting and new things to post on our blogs is usually the last thing we want to do after a hard day at work. Nevertheless, saying that it's does form a slice of our daily routine. Instead of sitting down in front of the TV, leisure now means sitting in front of a computer and going on social networking websites. But does the population really think about what we write? Do individuals, other than fellow realtors, actually read the articles we put up? I guess we will never know for definite, will we?
I actually do examine the websites of my fellow real estate associates and I do read the articles they write, because the topics are of interest. For someone who is not connected to the housing market, I really couldn't say whether these reports would be of any interest. So now I don't have to see or talk to my colleagues often to know what is going on with their lives, I can read about it in their articles and posts. So I may not have spoken to someone for a long time, but I can genuinely say I have learnt alot about them, and this is all down to social networking. What a brilliant idea social networking is.
In my professional life I market Condos in Toronto, and I believe social networking to be one of the key ways of making professional contacts. I hope this small article was of any help for you!