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  Ed Wetschler July 14, 2012 at 7:43pm

  A valid question, although what really intrigues me is your comment about the missing hangover. How do you do that?

  Okay, why would I like something on facebook? Two completely different reasons: (1) because I genuinely like the product, i.e. Tripatini and Buckettripper, and/or (2) I like the person who asked me to like the product, so I do this as a favor to him/her.  Neither of these may move you to click over to FB right this minute and like a couple dozen pages, but for what it's worth, those are my motivations. That, and the fact that when you've "liked" your 100th fb page, Mark Z. mails you an Aston Martin.    

   
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  Allan Lynch July 14, 2012 at 5:17pm

  Morning Ed,

  I am surprisingly - and somewhat encouragingly - unhungover for someone who did two liquid back-to-back concerts last evening, then drank till 3:30 am. Conversation gets so much more passionate the later the hour. Now I'm rattling along on a private train and my fingers are sliding across the keys so pardon for the spelling errors. But I still don't understand liking something on FB. What is the purpose?
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  Ed Wetschler July 14, 2012 at 4:36am

  One more thing to Bescover: When you still need more likes, it often helps to hold a contest or a giveaway of some sort, as in "the _ _ nth person to like our page wins _ _ _ . Scary how well that works.
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  Ed Wetschler July 14, 2012 at 4:33am

  Bescover, one way people amass likes is to flat-out ask everyone on their contact list to like them on FB. Allan, you use the word "likes" in quotes below, and God knows, FB does abuse the language. First "friends," then "likes," then "unlike." I happen to love much of what Facebook does, but it is hard to forgive the language abuse.
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  Allan Lynch July 13, 2012 at 11:36pm

  I don't understand the purpose of Facebook 'likes'. But perhaps it's because I'm one of those people whose FB friends are actually people I know. I know what they do and don't like.

  If FB 'likes' are to somehow influence me, they don't. They make a company look and sound needy. If anything I would avoid a place that other urge me to 'like'. 
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  Bescover July 13, 2012 at 9:40pm

  Hey folks,

  Bescoverer from http://Bescover.com here with a question.  When you use Facebook with a business page, what is the most effective way to gather "Likes."

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  Tripatini July 12, 2012 at 4:40pm

  New on our blog: Travel Advertorial: A Gray Area, As PR Agents Play Reporter. The author welcomes comments/observations. What's yours?
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  Tripatini July 10, 2012 at 4:43pm

  Anyone familiar with Haute-Garonne, especially the city of Toulouse and surroundings? A fellow Tripatini would love some advice. To help out, please click on this link to our Ask A Travel Pro forum. Merci!
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  Ed Wetschler July 4, 2012 at 5:29pm

  Jacquie Whitt asks an important (and, I hope, not heartbreaking) question about her Nikon lens on Tripatini's photography group:

  http://www.tripatini.com/group/travelphotography
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