Social Media Adventures in 2013

Happy New Year!

There is something about starting a new year that reminds of starting a school year. Both are about beginnings.

What social media adventures are you planning to take in 2013?

If you have only participated in Facebook, maybe this is the year to try out Twitter.

If you have been more professionally oriented and have only been active on LinkedIn, then consider checking out Pinterest.

For the longest time (since 2008), the only social media platforms I participated in were Facebook and LinkedIn.

Then in 2012 I decided to get active on Twitter, plus I got on the Pinterest bandwagon. Both of them have truly enriched my life, and believe it not, there are some interesting synergies between the two of them.

What’s next for me?

YouTube definitely beckons me.

Just in case you aren’t familiar with it: YouTube allows people to watch and share originally-created videos as well as videos that appeared in the media. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.  Register at www.youtube.com

My plan is to better understand how YouTube works, and what draws so many people to YouTube.

How are you using YouTube? Do you post videos to it? What kind of topics, people, and entities do you search out on YouTube?

The other social media platform that intrigues me is StumbleUpon, and you can find it at www.stumbleupon.com

This site was recommended to me by a friend, and I have been considering it for some time. Here are the topics I have picked so far as my interests: aging, books, computers, Facebook, family, oldies music, photography, self improvement, spirituality, travel and women’s issues. I like how I can customize my approach to using StumbleUpon.

For those unfamiliar with it, here is a short description from Wikipedia:

“StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles.”

Have you gotten involved in StumbleUpon? If so, how do you use it?

Joyce Feustel, Founder of Boomers’ Social Media Tutor, helps people relatively new to social media to become more effective and comfortable in their use of this medium. Find her at www.boomerssocialmediatutor.com