You are on Facebook now, and you probably even have a few contacts, but who are you? Does this photo look familiar? I have no idea what percentage of Facebook and LinkedIn users have this same photo, but it is HUGE! I want to know who I’m connecting with on social networking sites, don’t you? Please do me a favor, and yourself, and upload a photo so that I know who I’m connecting with. Chances are that you are missing out on valuable connections because people can’t find you, or even worse, they won’t friend you because they can’t tell who you are.
Here are a few tips for launching your social media profiles (or relaunching them as the case may be)!
- Fill out your profile completely including your photo
- Add appropriate contact information like your website, phone and email address
- Consider using your maiden name if you haven’t been married very long
- Include your education, both college and high school
- Make sure to include current and past companies where appropriate, lots of people have changed jobs in the past several years
- When possible, block your birth year
Hopefully these tips will help you some as you launch your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. As always, feel free to contact mRELEVANCE if you need help!






















Comments
September 5th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Great point — I see that quite a bit and it drives me nuts!
To take it one point further, try to use the SAME photo across all services so people can begin to recognize your avatar. I keep a folder in my Dropbox called “avatars” that has my photo in a variety of sizes (full resolution, 75×75, 90×90, 133×200, 420×315, 584×584 etc) so I can easily have the appropriate sized photo for the site I’m using.
September 6th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Mickey: Having them sized and ready to load is a great idea! I have loaded my photo on Gavatar and several other sites, so that when I comment on blogs it automatically propagates the photo field. That often saves a step too!
September 6th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Carol: Gravatar is a good call! I recommend that everyone use that, for the exact reason you give.