Hidden Streams on Facebook Pages & Profiles, Over-Sharing, and Attention Curation as Equity.

We all know that Facebook is buggy, and for some businesses and neophytes, figuring out all of the settings and controls must be like wading through syrup.

There is one simple fact, and it’s that the way you want consumers to use Facebook is *not* the way that Facebook users are using it. Yet.

The way some people post on their Facebook Hotel Page, it’s tantamount to pounding on your guest’s door all hours of the day with little bits of information. It’s overwhelming, and it is off-putting.

The network that is supposed to connect everyone in the world is doing more to create a completely “tromp l’oeil” experience in regards to social media – it looks more like a network than it really is.

It’s time to rethink your eagerness versus effectiveness on Facebook Pages. Of course, as I write this… all I can do is wonder about Facebook’s effectiveness, overall.

Recession, Hotels, and where are we now? or “Cautious optimism, wreckless apprehension”

All this being told… I think the slide and panic is over. Our awful day at the beach is done, and what happens next is shaking out the blanket to clear the sand…. and we will see what is jarred loose from the hotel economic fabric. The problems that are still to come are not pro-longed troubles for hotels, it is simply the back end of the recession working itself out. Until then…. buckle up…. I doubt it will be too bumpy a drive home, but it’s gonna be a long ride.