Facebook is a very powerful social tool. With its huge user base, growing capabilities, and general popularity, Facebook offers you a chance to be truly influential. As a facebook user, you must have seen marketers, bloggers, small and large businesses, scholars and teenagers all promoting their brand and their causes on this social platform. Some of them have thousands of friends, do they know them all? No, in fact people who have this many friends on their personal facebook profile, they don’t even know who they are friends with. But, if you have read our 5 tips to become a social media guru, you would know that having many friends is not a sign of success.

At logoinn we offer logo design and web design services and we use social networks to communicate with clients, fans, friends, designers, and people who are interested in the work we do. So we decided to share some tips with you, hoping that these tips will help you improve your social networking skills on facebook. We will teach you how to become influential on facebook by becoming a better friend to the people you have already added as your friends. Following these simple rules, you can become popular among your friends, and eventually you would become influential enough to get people to like things you share, click on links you post, and read your status updates with genuine interest.

1. Describe Yourself
How many of your facebook friends really know what you like and dislike? Do all of them know what kind of music you listen? Do they know your favorite books, movies, and tv shows? Do they know what you do for living and things you are passionate about? Of course not so where would they go to learn more about you? They would come to your profile page. Edit your profile page and share your interests with your friends.

Remember that using the privacy settings you can control who can see this information. So there is no need to be afraid, just be yourself and let other people know more about you.

2. Get to Know Your Friends Better
As your friends would come to your profile page to learn about you, perhaps it is time for you to learn more about people you have added as your friends. Most probably you would already know something or other about them. But there is a good chance that you don’t know all your friends. So visit their profiles from time to time to learn where they from, what they do, what they like. This will help you communicate with them in the future and will also help you build a long mutually beneficial friendship.

3. Press The Like Button
What I personally love about facebook is that it is always giving you hints on how you can become a good friend and how you can become influential. One such hint is the like button. Use this button to let your friends know that you liked the things they shared.

4. Share What You Like
The whole purpose behind the social network websites was to provide platforms to people to share things online with the groups they like. People feel really proud when their friends like things they shared and reshare those things around. So if you like something that a friend of yours posted don’t hesitate and share it with your other friends.

5. You got something to say? Then Comment
We all love discussions revolving around the topics closer to our hearts. If you are one such person then why don’t you jump into the conversations? Seriously, what’s stopping you? Be generous and do let people know what you think about their status messages, their links, pictures of their pets, and the movies they have watched. Use these things as ice breaker to initiate a conversation. Don’t just comment and disappear, show that you are genuinely interested by carrying the discussion and replying to the replies of your comments.

6. Ask Questions
People love to answer questions. So from time to time if there is something that you want to know don’t hesitate and ask your friends. This is what friends do they ask each other questions as conversational ice breakers. For example if you are visiting a place for the first time you can ask your friends if they know what’s good here. Or if you are thinking about reading you can ask your friends for suggestions and recommendations. Things like that will make your friends notice you more and take interest in your activities.

7. Introduce Friends to New Friends
Always keep reminding yourself that facebook is a social platform. People to people interactions are what drive this new way of communication. To be influential on facebook you need to have friends and your friends also need new friends who share their interests. Introduce your friends to each other so that your network grows and you become more influential among your friend’s circle.

8. Invite Your Friends
Facebook is not just limited to Status Updates and your wall. Break free from the walls from time to time and explore groups and pages on facebook. There is a lot more going on this vibrant live media and there are always interesting things happening around your interests. But remember good friends share good things with their friends. So when you find a cool new page, or a discussion group, don’t forget to share it with your friends. Specially invite your friends who you think would be interested in your new discovery. By inviting your friends you are helping them socialize and they more socially active your friends get, the more influential you become.

Remember that you are good as your friends are, so do not just add people to your friends list. If you do add people as friends then it is your responsibility to be a better friend. Good friends watch out for each other. Since you are the smarter one you take the first step, they will love you for that.

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