Finding Value: Social Network Recommendations
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
My camera mysteriously stopped working a few weeks ago. After sending it back to Casio and having them not honor my warranty (I won’t get into it here, but if you want the details, I’ll tell you), I have decided that I’ll probably have to buy a new camera. My hand feels lost without one.
With all this social media at my finger tips, I decided to get some feedback from friends (Facebook) and followers (Twitter). I put the message below out to both the networks and as you can see in the Facebook example, I had some quality feedback almost immediately!

This is very interesting because instead of going to some camera site and reading reviews from random editors/consumers, I am getting great recommendations from people I know and respect. It’s safe to say I’m leaning towards a Canon. They must be doing something right. Word of mouth is still the strongest advertising…
Thanks for all the advice!