Spork Marketing Blog Now a “NetworkedBlog”

Just when you thought Facebook couldn’t get any more fantastic, along comes a blog network app that allows you to promote your blog on your Facebook profile.

Is this “social media marketing” or shameless self promotion? How about I put together a list…

Reasons this is social media marketing:

• I’m promoting a marketing tool on a social network.
• I can find and form new relationships with potential clients and fellow bloggers via Facebook.
• I’m making it easy for people to digest my blog content on Facebook, a place where the average user spends about 20 minutes looking at their friends profiles, playing games, etc.

Reasons this is shameless self-promotion:

• Most of my Facebook friends are, in reality, my friends. How is promoting my blogging to them anything but self-promotion?
• This “NetworkedBlog” Facebook app associates my blog with me personally – does that smack of vanity or what? Granted, I’m the blog author, but it’s not really about me. I’m doing this to help people and maybe get a little business.
• I had to beg 7 of my friends to follow my blog on Facebook so I could get the app to start displaying my RSS feed.

What do you think – shameless self promotion or genuine social media marketing?