Ari Herzog

"This is precisely why the concept behind Twitter doesn't work for me and countless others. Twitter is billed as a place to answer the question, "What are you doing?" Like Jacob's question and your response, Tim, that social media engagement shouldn't be about doing something because everyone else is doing it but because there's some greater organic reason to do it, Twitter should be used to tell your story, explain what you're accomplishing, or to say whatever you want to say. Don't use Twitter to say what you're doing just because Twitter says you should say that. Oh... and your monkey, Jacob: Does the ape weigh 100 pounds?" - Ari Herzog

"I'm surprised neither you nor your other commenters so far raise the notion that one can have both pages and groups. Consider an organization, for instance, that currently has a group and is considering upgrading to a page. Why not keep the group and create the page, email the group members about the page, and users can do what they wish? Another way to look at the group vs page debate is use the page as the primary engine, with groups acting as subsidiaries. For instance, if Jason Falls Consulting is the name of a page, then Jason Falls Speaking could be one group, Jason Falls Blogging could be another group, and Social Media Explorer could be another page. And so forth." - Ari Herzog