by Larry Richman | Aug 7, 2011
This weekend, the Facebook page for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints surpassed 500,000 “likes.” That’s grown from 300,000 fans a year ago. According to the Facebook Page Leaderboard, the Church’s Facebook page ranked #11 in the...
by Larry Richman | May 13, 2011
The LDS Newsroom has just posted a blog “Church Has Strong Presence on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter,” which describes how the Church uses Facebook pages, YouTube channels, and Twitter accounts. Facebook The website AllFacebook.com lists nearly 3,000 pages...
by Larry Richman | Apr 18, 2011
Did you know that the Perpetual Education Fund has a page on Facebook in English, with corresponding pages in Spanish for Mexico and Peru, in addition to their website at pef.lds.org? March 31, 2011 marked the 10th anniversary of this great program designed to provide...
by Larry Richman | Mar 25, 2011
Today, I attended the forum at BYU where Mark Zuckerberg (the unassuming CEO of Facebook) and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch talked about technology. Hatch fielded questions that were posed by BYU students earlier on the BYU Facebook page. Zuckerberg talked about founding...
by Larry Richman | Feb 28, 2011
eMarketer estimates that more than half of internet users in the USA used Facebook at least monthly as of December 2010. In 2011, over 130 million web users will use the site in the USA–that’s almost 90% of social network users, 57% of internet users, and...
by Larry Richman | Feb 4, 2011
Since the launch of the Facebook page for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (facebook.com/lds) in May 2008, the Church has created two dozen other Facebook pages in support of various programs and interests. LDS365 maintains a list of the Church pages on...
by Larry Richman | Nov 11, 2010
I delivered the following today as part of a panel discussion titled “Mormon Media Studies: Across Web Time, Cyberspace, and Blogging Disciplines” in the symposium “Mormon Media Studies: Across Time, Space, and Disciplines,” at the BYU Conference Center in Provo,...
by Larry Richman | Jul 1, 2010
The LDS Church’s page on Facebook just passed 300,000 people who “like” the page! Please share http://facebook.com/lds with friends and family. Learn more about the Church’s main page on Facebook and other Church pages on Facebook.
by Larry Richman | Jun 2, 2010
The LDS Church page on Facebook has a new name. You can go there directly at facebook.com/lds. There are now 281,840 people who like the Church’s page. You may want to recommend it to your friends. In yesterday’s article, I mentioned how you can help...
by Larry Richman | Jun 1, 2010
Social media is now the #1 activity on the Web. (Hitwise reports that Facebook has overtaken Google as the most popular Web site in the USA.) eMarketer estimates that nearly 60% of Internet users will use a social network at least once a month this year. And it’s more...
by Larry Richman | Feb 17, 2010
This weekend, the Facebook page of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“the Mormons”) passed 200,000 fans. Interested in getting started on Facebook yourself? Need to teach someone else how to get started? Watch this easy-to-understand video...
by Larry Richman | Dec 7, 2009
Facebook now has over 350 million users–45 million more than the number of people in the USA. Facebook also announced it will enhance privacy controls to let users determine who gets to see pictures, comments, videos, and other material in profiles. In coming...
by Larry Richman | Sep 17, 2009
The page on Facebook for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just passed the 100,000 mark! Thanks to the 100,146 fans who are supporting the Church’s page on Facebook.
by Larry Richman | Sep 16, 2009
The official Church page on Facebook has 99,527 fans. Please share it with your friends and invite them to become fans so we can pass the 100,000 mark!
by Larry Richman | Jul 4, 2009
In May 2009, Facebook became the most popular US social networking site, just barely surpassing MySpace’s number of unique visitors. Facebook now allows you to choose a username for your user page. For example, rather than the Web address (URL)being a...