7 Steps: Give Your Facebook Some New Energy

By on April 1, 2009 in Work & Life

1. Makeover
Does your profile picture still show you with long hair when you now have sexy short hair? Or black hair when you now sport fabulous highlights? Update that profile picture already. Show your friends and fake friends that not only are you still alive, you look good.

2. Renew
If all your favorite movies and bands and TV shows are still stuck in 2005, it’s time to refresh your interests to reflect the new you. Example: delete Batman Begins, input The Dark Knight.

3. Weed Out
Detag any unflattering pictures of yourself. No one needs to know that from a worm’s eye view camera angle, your chin looks huge and your nose looks weird. Fool everyone into thinking you are one photogenic goddess.

4. Give
Join a cause. Send your friend a Facebook flower. Give a gift to a stressed friend. Donate money. Become a fan of a good organization. Spread good Facebook karma.

5. De-clutter
Delete people you are never going to see again. It’ll empty up space for new people you will actually keep in touch with in real life.

6. Reconnect
Poke some old friends you haven’t spoken to in a long time. Send them a message. If you’re feeling really ambitious and artsy, draw a pretty graffiti on their wall. Resurrect the KIT.

7. Touch-up
Finish your Facebook makeover with an uplifting status update. Yumi is: Anyone ready to go to the beach this weekend?!!

 

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About Yumi Sakugawa

I am a comic book artist and illustrator based in the greater Los Angeles area. My website can be found at: www.yumisakugawa.com. Every so often, I make illustrated guides to mindfulness and meditation. You can buy a booklet of them here: (http://yumisakugawa.bigcartel.com/product/there-is-no-right-way-to-meditate )     In a previous life, I was the online editorial producer of Intent.com. When I am not drawing and thinking of new stories, I am drinking ridiculous amounts of tea, craving Indian sweets and dreaming of the day when I will have my own King Charles Cavalier Spaniel.
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5 Responses to 7 Steps: Give Your Facebook Some New Energy

  1. Cassaundra March 31, 2009 at 5:43 pm #

    Finally somebody who understands why I clean out my Facebook of unnecessary junk! Thanks Yumi!

  2. yumi March 31, 2009 at 5:46 pm #

    Yes, I DO understand. :) Facebook is .. like… oxygen!

  3. linda.larue April 1, 2009 at 9:24 am #

    Hey Yumi-Thanks for the great info as I have only recently joined Facebook. I did spend a few hours getting up to speed with Hal Lublin of Buzz Builderz, who is a social media guru.

    I did become a little overwhelmed watching his fingers fly over the key board, but I was able to learn a couple things…

    Question: What are accepted good manners on Facebook? There are a couple people that send too, too many blurbs about total non-sense on my feed. What do you do? Contact them to tell them your concerns or just delete them?

    Thanks for your thoughts and help,

    Linda

  4. yumi April 1, 2009 at 9:46 am #

    Hi Linda,

    Good question! The stuff that shows up on your feed are automated–basically whatever your friends do, they automatically show up. I believe you can change your feed settings in a way so that you can only receive notices for certain kinds of feeds, and receive feeds only from certain freinds, etc. It's all in the settings somewhere! (Anyone else who's more Facebook-pro please feel free to explain)

  5. Taj April 1, 2009 at 7:55 pm #

    In the latest weird version of Facebook News Feed, you hover near the right top corner of the post in question and an option to "Hide" them becomes available.

    Used to be easier when you could say "less of" or "more of" your friends.

    Ah, well.

    In Light & Love,

    Namast