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If you are not on Facebook, you fundamentally don't even exist, a friend has told me some time ago. Honestly, I'm starting to lean towards this belief. Social network sites give you an insight into what your buddy's and colleagues are doing. It is just about hopeless to keep in communication otherwise.

Nevertheless, staying informed about the life of your mates and acquaintances surely is not the only purpose of such websites. Let's face it, real estate agents (and not only them, of course) also use such sites because they want to somehow help themselves, they want to draw in more customers to use their services. With the rise of internet services, advertising in the newspaper or having large billboards have nearly disappeared forever. Internet is THE strong device now. On-line, (what a coincidence) you can find a plethora of articles with instructions and working tips on how to use the phenomenon of social networking.

Of course it's much more demanding for older generations to get used to all the kinds of new websites, systems of writing, commenting and all the related tasks. Kids work with computers from a young age, so are fluent with them, whilst we, from the older generation, are taking a while to work things out. In spite of that, we have a go Those ideas, I guess, are not just felt by me, but by lots of realtors out there.

After an exhausting day full of work, driving, telephone calls, meetings and checking out property, we come home and even if we are extremely exhausted, we check out the real estate news, try to find enthralling topics and write a couple of articles for our blogs, post something on facebook or twitter. Our daily lives now surrounds just that sort of communication. Instead of sitting down in front of the TV, leisure now means sitting in front of a computer and writing on social networking sites. Is it in vain, or are the public intrigued or care about what we blog about? Is it only the public that do the exact same job actually studying the articles and posts we make? I think we will never know for certain, will we?

I actually do examine the websites of my fellow real estate associates and I do read the features they write, because the topics are of interest. Are these features of any interest to the public not involved in the housing market, that I can't answer. By reading colleagues blogs and posts, it doesn't matter how often I meet up with them, I am always up to date with their lives. So I may not have seen to someone for a long time, but I can honestly say I have learnt alot about them, and this is because of social networking. That sure is wonderful!

In my professional life I deal Condos in Toronto, and I consider social networking to be one of the key ways of making professional contacts. Hopefully this small article was of any help for you!

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