Chicken lovers

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Food and Facebook


Hi everyone, this is my first blog in English. My name is Christophorus but if it's too long you can call me Chris then. Currently, i am studying in Master of International Business and this is my second semester.

And right now, i'm making a blog relates to social media. Social media are growing to be one of the factors that affect the world. As a person who likes to eat (who doesn't??), I often see in the website of some leader in the food industry like McDonald, KFC and Hungry Jack that they are publishing their Facebook pages.

This is some of the examples:

1. McDonalds



(see for the red arrow)





2. KFC



(see for the red circle on the top right. Just a Facebook symbol)




3. Hungry Jack



(see for the messy red circle - sorry for that - in the bottom. Upside of the Twitter logo)





The question is: Why Facebook? I know that Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. However, the fact that KFC, McDonald and Hungry Jack already been known by most of the people in the whole world, so why then they even bother to make a Facebook page? And is there any other options besides Facebook?

As a man who likes to eat, I never open their Facebook pages because I think I can just open their homepage. How about you guys? Any thoughts?