Comments on: facebook smackdown http://realestatedementia.com/facebook-smackdown/ musings on a crazy industry... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Marcie Roggow http://realestatedementia.com/facebook-smackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Marcie Roggow Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:46:31 +0000 http://realestatedementia.com/?p=211#comment-124 And it gets stranger! The agent did in fact pick up the phone and call the well meaning agent and yelled at and further berated the other person. But the best part was when the broker was contacted, he seemed very removed and not a bit concerned! So there you have it! When I recently did the program "When Article 12 and Web 2.0" collide for the Houston Association of REALTORS(R) broker's meeting there were many great comments....mostly regarding they had to get back to their offices and start checking social media pages of their agents. I have also seen posts where the 'non-agent' friends of a person are begging not to be spammed with real estate advertising....free or not...not everyone is into the constant promotion. Last week a well known educator even posted "if you want to do business....go to LinkedIn or Twitter....but take your business off my 'social site' or I'll have to remove you! This war should get more interesting as the summer heat accelerates! Bring out the fans because the 'dung' is about to hit the oscillator. And it gets stranger! The agent did in fact pick up the phone and call the well meaning agent and yelled at and further berated the other person. But the best part was when the broker was contacted, he seemed very removed and not a bit concerned! So there you have it! When I recently did the program “When Article 12 and Web 2.0″ collide for the Houston Association of REALTORS(R) broker’s meeting there were many great comments….mostly regarding they had to get back to their offices and start checking social media pages of their agents.

I have also seen posts where the ‘non-agent’ friends of a person are begging not to be spammed with real estate advertising….free or not…not everyone is into the constant promotion.

Last week a well known educator even posted “if you want to do business….go to LinkedIn or Twitter….but take your business off my ‘social site’ or I’ll have to remove you!

This war should get more interesting as the summer heat accelerates! Bring out the fans because the ‘dung’ is about to hit the oscillator.

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