I read it over and over in real estate and business trade publications and on the web -- gotta change, gotta adapt, gotta do this, gotta do that. One thing I apparently have to do is to embrace "social media". Well, maybe I do, and maybe I don't. I'm picky about such things, especially activities that can turn into tremendous time-sucks.
I believe that this blog is worth the time and effort, and now I have gone one step further. I have created a Facebook page called Vince Hoehn, GRI for the purpose of providing another place to publish my blog posts. (Pages are for organizations and businesses, Profiles are for individuals. You probably know more about this than I do. I have not also created an individual Profile for the simple reason that my kids would most certainly find it uncool if their Old Man tried to "friend" them, and I would be mightily tempted to do that, if only to annoy them.)
As I said, my Facebook page exists mostly as a platform for my blog posts, but over time, perhaps I will do a few things that I cannot do here. One thing a Facebook page can do is attract "fans." So far I have exactly zero fans, and it may stay that way forever, for all I know.
So, I have a proposition for my readers -- the first one to become a fan of my Facebook page wins $10. Fan #2 will be awarded $5, and Fan #3 gets a very nice likeness of George Washington. Fan #4 gets nothing, sorry -- three fans is all I can afford to buy.
Come to think of it, that's another reason not to create a Facebook Profile -- I wouldn't want to put myself in the position of having to buy my friends, also.