I’m thinking about getting my own website which will have a fairly unique moniker. When I get it, I’d like to register it as my user ID on the more important and significant websites. Twitter comes to mind, but do you people have ideas about which ones I should sign up for in order to preserve my ID. I’m talking about sites that have important visibility and may be used to draw visitors to my site.
I’m not much of a social media junkie, so help me out!
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[li]If you value your privacy, don’t use the same moniker for your web site and any anonymous connections. Unless, of course, that doesn’t matter to you.[/li][li]Can’t help you with “important” social media sites. IMHO, most social media is pure ego and a waste of time.[/li][li]The word “unique” requires no modifier.[/li][/ul]
I’d probably grab email id’s matching it on gmail, yahoo, and any other public mail accounts.
I’m not sure what it takes to set up a impersonal/business site on Facebook, but you probably want to try and snap that up, also.
If your interested in blogging and are hoping to define a celebrity identity as such, you’re going to want to get yourself matching userIDs at all the relevant sites.
For a blogger on general news / commentary that might be cnn, fox, msnbc, washington post, LA times, NY times, etc. If you’re blogging on something-industry specific then it’ll be whatever sites are connected with the main pundits, suppliers, and magazines in your industry.
In other words, all the electronic water coolers where your target audience already hangs out.
Thanks for all this useless information. Jesus.
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I’d probably grab email id’s matching it on gmail, yahoo, and any other public mail accounts.
I’m not sure what it takes to set up a impersonal/business site on Facebook, but you probably want to try and snap that up, also.
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Thanks for responding thoughtfully, although I was planning on doing this.
I’m thinking about stuff like Tumblr, which I don’t even know what it does, but it costs nothing but time to register.
OK, I took a look at Tumblr. It looks like blogging for people with ADD. I’ll register an account just so that some idiot doesn’t take my ID.
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If your interested in blogging and are hoping to define a celebrity identity as such, you’re going to want to get yourself matching userIDs at all the relevant sites.
For a blogger on general news / commentary that might be cnn, fox, msnbc, washington post, LA times, NY times, etc. If you’re blogging on something-industry specific then it’ll be whatever sites are connected with the main pundits, suppliers, and magazines in your industry.
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This is useful. I’m not looking for any celebrity blogger status, but thanks for mentioning major media sites. I’d just like to draw traffic to the site.
The big 3, of course, are Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Twitter is easy, so you could start there. They don’t care what your username is, as long as it not already being used. With Facebook and Google+ I am not sure how easy or hard it is to set that up.
Tumblr is something different for everyone who uses it. There are plenty of people who just post picture after picture, other people have text. But, yeah, if it’s not for you, it doesn’t hurt to grab it just so you own the name.
There are a couple of sites that you can use to check to make sure noone is using the name already. Do a google search for User Name Social Media check. Or something of that nature. Not only will it enable you to see if your name is out there already, but it will also give you some ideas of other social media sites to use. I think Lifehacker did a review of a couple of the sites, that might help you find one to use.