The Side of Social Media No One Talks About

Social media. Yes. But is this just [... gasping!] Fashion? Will you continue to tweet in 2015? Are Facebook and LinkedIn popular after 5 years, 4 years and even 2 years from now? Or do you want to move completely to something else? Apart from security issues and other documented misuses related to some of these sites, there are other problematic aspects of social media that nobody else mentions at the moment.

When you are doing business, you need to be extroverted, friendly, extroverted and socially well connected. Therefore, the success of social media sites.

But not all of us in business are naturally that way. Some of us suffer from embarrassment, stage phobia, fear of speaking in public, and the burden of fighting competition. For us with these attributes, there are also social media sites. pretend Not all outgoing, friendly, outgoing, socially good connection.

If you face something unavoidable, you will have trouble. This is called “humiliation”. A tweet or blog comment that is 50-50 chances for someone to reject the connection invitation, ignore the expert's recommendation, or even worse to say negative about us.

Just like life, an adult with normal thinking should have the ability to shrug such events as meaningless and move on to more important things. Sticks, stones, etc.

Unfortunately, I'm the one who happens to keep everything in mind. Sounds ridiculous, but my “feelings” are easily hurt and I think about why I don't want to be a “friend” even though I'm naturally secluded.

But I must admit, I'm as guilty as the next guy out of insulting my social media. Every time someone who does business with me invites me to connect to LinkedIn, I need to consider whether the connection is a sensible move for other business relationships. If the new invitation is from a vendor, I will keep such sources more discreet in case my client decides to shop at a better price while snooping on the LinkedIn page . Also, when connecting to one vendor, it is not necessary to connect to all vendors. Some vendors cannot choose to continue using for various reasons.

I noticed that LinkedIn has options as well as Facebook and Twitter. Here you can break your connection, follower or “friendship” connection. ]!

I recently invited my client to connect with LinkedIn, but I immediately regret it, and what seems to be our suspicious relationship for the forever long week she took to respond I regret and suffer. I was fed up with the cheap when she finally accepted, but I reviewed the whole episode as a risk to a stable business relationship otherwise. I was fresh with the experience and wondered if social media was everything. For me, examining her other connections that many of her are my competitors will be a problem to worry about the persistence of my values ​​against her ... but when you are doing business I think it is constant. If it looks blatant, it is a far more threat. I think I should be honored to be in such an impressive company.

One of my lawyer clients recently asked me to set him up on LinkedIn. First, you had to upload a photo that was cropped to the right size, present the full history of your work in the right category template, and select the right settings for the public persona. The average person is expected to do these things on their own, but those with limited computer skills, awareness, and time can find this a challenging task. For me too, it takes a bit of trial and error to properly display things. In any case, I confirmed that everything was set up, briefly explained what LinkedIn is, and invited him to connect me for the first connection. He sent me an email saying "OK" and that was the last thing he heard from him. I am not worried about the relationship about 20 years ago. Rather, many other clients do not “get” Twitter or Facebook, so I write this down on LinkedIn that he “not got”.

And I can't blame them. I recently declined to make friends with someone on Facebook. As usual, it can undermine the results of personal Google who has worked hard to stay positive on all fronts for business reasons. These Facebook invitations are often sent to spam filters, so if I was not such a watchful email reviewer, I would otherwise miss it. So I usually don't get in the way to respond without "accepting" or "ignoring". But if the invitation is from an important person in my life, I will try to send an email explaining my stance.

But how do we live in the world now! The time spent is usually wasted most of the time, because you have to spend precious time and carefully decline invitations from many social websites or ignore them with guilt. All the time I spent creating clever tweets on one of the few Twitter accounts I started can show me the obvious of the “followers” ​​who buy something from them Just a few. Yes, many clever Twitter relies on purchasing programs and services that provide thousands of followers, for example, to avoid the embarrassment of having only 22 followers.

However, we recognize the benefits of having a good LinkedIn presence. This is very helpful for me and is one of the most powerful search results for my name on Google. This is good. The same is true for powerful Twitter links. This is for clients who don't fully understand SEO [Search Engine Optimization].

My attitude reminds me of what fellow investors told me during the dot.com boom at the turn of the century. Selling items from your sock drawer made up little of eBay's good future. Here we are over 10 years later, eBay has become one of the major forces in the Internet world. What I can say is that anything is possible. “Hey, you never know!”

Still, I completely avoid Facebook from my business, but I get a lot of invitations and reminders. And I recognize that the whole world is on Facebook and is equally powerful in Google search results. I'm reluctant to try to reveal personal secrets that might breathe my neck, want an email account, and don't mind sharing the rest of my personal information with Google results .

Okay, if it still remains after a few years, you're likely to join the crowd by then. But until it happens ... I will be careful and careful. My time is too precious at the moment.