People have often asked me how to grow network in Facebook. Most of the people think, adding friends is growing network. No. Adding friends just grows your friends list. Not network. So here i am, pointing some steps to grow your network.

Here are the tips to maximise your Facebook experiance:

Complete your Profile: Dont leave your profile uncomplete. Uncomplete profile looks like a fake profile. Facebook users generally look in the profile and then add friends. 

Integrate: Integrate your other online presence such as blog, twitter etc to your facebook account. It should be such that, if you update twitter or blog, it should automatically get posted in Facebook. For example when I upload any video on my Youtube channel, it automatically reflects in my Facebook Profile. Same with my Blog.

Interact: Interact with people. Start with commenting on friend’s status message. Comment/tag the pics/videos you like. Dont forget to wish on Birthdays. Dont hesitate to visit other’s profile and post on wall. Just introduce yourself and start the conversation rolling.

Respond: Respond to the comments, messages you get. By responding to such messages you are making sure that the person gets to know that you really care for the comments and responces. It also shows you are active. 

Share: Share the pics/videos you like. Share the links you bookmark. People generally like to see interesting stuff, be it video or images.

Applications: Look out for some applications which interest you. Some of them can be horoscope, Music, Youtube etc.  Applications are a great tool to interest your profile visitors.

Groups: Join groups and Fanpages which interest you. For example, if you like the Mumbai city, Join the group of Mumbai. But check out if the group is active or not. Look out for the Discussion boards. take part in the discussions.

Be Active: For any network to grow, you must be active. if you are not active on Facebook, logging in just once in a week, people will loose interest. Socail networking needs active involvement.

Update your status Messages: With the realtime updates, status messages have suddenly become important. Regular updates in your status message shows how active you are. 

These are the basic steps to start off with Facebook.

Note: Thses steps are for personal Profile. Although Brand/corporate profile/accounts would also follow more or less the same steps, but would certainly be more extended ones.

Did I missed out some? Have any other thoughts on this?