Facebook Pet Pages: furry friendly or barking mad?

Man’s best friend just managed to get its presence online with personalized Facebook pages doing the round. In my opinion, this is barking mad because I can’t seem to gather my thoughts around the fact that my dog won’t be able to interact with other domestic animals on Facebook. Maybe just maybe the search engine called Dogpile might become dog’s best friend after all. The next thing you know, my birdie will manage to get his message across in 140 characters with his captivating tweets via Twitter. Tweet tweet!

Marketing and money making opportunities

Through all this insanity, I do kind of see some marketing opportunities lurking forward. Picture this: You manage an e-commerce site whereby you sell animal products and dog shampoo. Guess where you will be able to find an audience to push your products to? Especially since e-commerce have taken flight on Facebook. You might be spamming all those people with offers and discounts – but if they are mad enough to release their dog’s relationship status on Facebook – they might just fall for your sweet discounts. You don’t even have to spam them. Just follow their discussions and you will instantly find gaps or needs in the market. Go fetch!

Zuckerberg is doing it

Mark Zuckerberg just proved to us how ‘valuable’ or ‘special’ it is for your puppy to get a Facebook Page. Aaaawww how cute, I do sense the love between him and his puppy. The only thing left for his puppy is to learn how to grow crops on Farmville. Wait a minute! That gives me another money making thought that will boost ROI. Facebook Game Developers can develop games that will entertain your domestic animals and keep them busy for hours.

Opinions from Facebook users:

Judith Saul says:
To me facebook is a toy, a game; it’s friendly banter and jokes. It’s not an arena (to me) where it’s all that important to be honest. I don’t divulge on facebook where I work, went to school, what my true email address is… none of that. And I have FB aliases. One of my stuffed animals has a page of its own. I use my aliases to test things, like what happens if I share/send something. It’s also the account that signs up for silly games. I’ve noticed that most of my Farmville neighbours have followed my lead. They all have aliases so they can generate gifts and such without waiting for their neighbours to send them.

So a facebook page for a dog? Sure why not? What harm does it do? There’s actually an app specifically for that, called Dogbook which several of my friends have signed up for. There’s another site called myArfie.com that is basically the same thing — a place to share info about your dog with other dog lovers. I have dog friends on Twitter as well. And I follow a miniature pig on facebook. Of course I know these are being penned by someone else but there’s something spectacularly funny and sweet that the posts are in the animal’s voice.

Truffie Truff says:
I think creating a facebook page for your domestic animal is barking mad.
I was taught by my master how to manage basic PC usage. He then purchased a ‘bark to tweet’ software for me so now I can manage my online communications myself.
It’s great for organizing the local Dog community.

Ruff

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A clear example of a puppy in Facebook heaven

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