Chris Sunkin is on Facebook tutoring Emeril how to cook on the outdoor grill, while throttling his 47 Apache with his toes. Such a showoff, that Chris.

Awesome! Are you like in IT or something???? You're super-duper smart! I have a computer running windows 3.1 and it keeps asking for my credit card number... I type it in everytime then it takes me to some Russian man on man gay porn site. I mean, its ok and all, but not my cup of tea. Windows 3.1 is still pretty cool but the thing about everything being in Russian is upsetting. I wish that I could understand what is being said. Can you fix it???

Your not right! :lolhit:

My friend TomTom tells me that too. Says only dummies use Windows 3.1. He says I should have upgraded to a 3.11 like last year...

And he's like totally the smartest dude I know...

Doesn't say a lot for the company I keep.

It is a great tool to get things out there. Were else can you click and button and it go to 1000s of people? Between all the junk on there it's an easy way to spread the news.

Matt there is a lot of times I read the speed on the water write ups from Facebook rather then here. It's a tool that has changed lots in the way things are done.

I get that everyone is not going to love social media. There is a lot of positives that come from it though. Especially boating related! I am friends with every powerboat club in the country, many of the boat racers, and all the poker runs. I love it!! People like Hammer Down Boating are killin it on Facebook. We also contribute some of the success of The Buffalo Poker Run to the ability to market to a much wider audience for pennies a day. It is a way to promote our sponsors for free. I hate to say it but the times they are a changing. If you don't like it that's cool but it is a highly effective way to communicate with people who share an interest.

It's not just a Facebook thing, it's the beauty of internet anonymity. Many(most) people believe that their opinion or what they believe to be fact as they way it is, and they lose all respect for others when relaying their message.

Don't believe me? Start a camshaft post on this site! :D

You can't afford my advice.
And I probably can't afford your service work either.

Casey, that's a great data point and one I confirm every time I review speedonthewater's Google analytics. During any 30-day period, referral traffic from our Facebook page is several thousand more visits higher than our referral traffic from all five message boards we use (with gracious permission from their owners) to distribute our content combined. That's huge. And it didn't use to be that way.

Hope this isn't boring you guys, but we also use Facebook to post items that are too short for and need to go live even faster than they can on speedonthewater.com. Example: Last years's Key West Worlds. I think we pulled 20-plus news stories out of there—and a digital magazine feature. But we must have posted more than 100 tiny bits of stuff on our Facebook page in the four days we were there.

Last, one mistake I see a lot of people falling into: Using Facebook as the primary page for your business. I get it. It's cheap—free. But Facebook lacks the content management and page layout flexibility for the most rudimentary business. As a platform for your own business, it's too limited.

Facebook is, from where we stand, a marketing tool with great potential. Or it can be a steaming pile of crap. It's all how you use it.