The what not to do in social media guide
Posted by Darren Vrede on 05 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Social Media
The point of social media is to get noticed by large audiences, but making a name for yourself can sometimes be very hard. Then, on top of making a name for yourself you need to make sure that your name is a good one because, obviously, nobody wants to be extremely popular for something bad.
I read a post about the sins of social media by Jennifer Horowitz. It made some excellent points on how not to come across to your audience and I just want to cover a few of the main ones.
The first thing they talked about was vanity. In all honesty I would be the first person to shower myself with praise once I have achieved something good but sometimes arrogance takes over from your confidence and you become disliked by many. You should know when to draw the line. If you know you’re good at something the best thing to do is teach others how to do it, instead of bragging about how good you are. The feeling in the end will be a much better one and comments about you will be good ones instead of negative ones.
Although many professionals are not arrogant and pass on their knowledge willingly, you still get the people that I like to call haters. These are the people who do not want to learn from the pros but rather try any tactic to be better than them. As the saying goes “don’t hate, appreciate”.
Your friend list and the people you follow on social media sites is the next important thing the article discussed. Basically, what it says is that you should concentrate on quality over quantity. Rather add people that are relevant to your work or niche instead of just adding for the “I got more friends or followers” bragging rights. This will get you more widely known where it actually matters.
In other social media news, it seems like Facebook has finally overtaken MySpace as the social media leader. Facebook is also the leading social media site in the United States. Personally, I never thought this would happen. Hitwise shows that Facebook holds 30.31% visits while MySpace is at 29.98% of visits for the past week. This is a small difference but a difference nevertheless. Other movement in the industry shows that the social networking site, Tagged, is doing better than Twitter in the US. Being very similar to Facebook, this site could also be a big name in the future.
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