Category: Social Media

Apr 19

How To Deal With Numerous Networking Websites And Requests

Everyday I get a new request in my email box. This person has send you an invite from MySpace. This person has sent a Facebook invite. Another person sent you a Tag. Another wants you to join them at Ning. You have a new follower on Twitter. There are at least 200 popular network sites online right now, and a new one added every day.

This means that on any given day, you can get dozens of emails to join one site or another. While I am certainly flattered by all of the invites, as someone who works online, if I did accept even half of the invites, my time online would become non-productive. Managing an online networking account takes time and effort, and did I say time? It is just not possible to accept all of the social network invites, nurture those accounts, and remain a productive human being.

So what should you do? Choose two or three and leave the rest alone. To do that, I decided to pick from some of the more popular networks online. Some of the bigger online networks are:

Facebook is open to users age 13 and over. Anyone student age must belong to a school to join. While it is safer minors than MySpace and YouTube where minors put too much personal information online, the addition of adults has me worried that it might not stay safe.

Linkedin is great for business networks and it the more professional of the bunch. Of course you have to remember to never put anything too personal on Linked in as it is a way to network for jobs and business, not for fun.

Twitter is a micro blog network that allows you to keep up with friends and acquaintances on a personal or business level. You can have a different personal and business ID if you wish. It is not time consuming because of the limit on words you can use at a time and it allows you to pass on information and notes quickly.

Instagram is another networking website that ahs numerous requests. This is even more evident if you buy IG likes at Buzzvoice. This service will provide you the chance to have more followers and likes. A lot of businesses online with social media presence use this service in order to grow their following. This in return will provide them with great returns.

When invites to other sites come, I recommend you respond with a message that says “Dear so-and-so, I appreciate your invite to XYZ social network website. Fortunately and unfortunately, I get dozens of invites every day from friends who use different social networks, so I had to stop accepting invites and make a decision. I decided to choose just a few network websites to be a member of so that I am not overwhelmed. You can find me online at the following social networks (add those links to the emails.)
By : Lucille
Category: Guide, Internet, Social Media
Dec 13

Are Your Social Media Relationships Real Or Fake? How? Check This Out

Jenn Kaye, a relationship communication specialist, recently stated that she felt people were using Social Media sites, such as Twitter and Face book, as more than tools, but as substitutes for real relationships. She wondered if some online relationships are based on fact or fiction. Anyone on Twitter for any real length of time, with a healthy following would say, for people who are extremely lonely there is an appeal to using it as a sort of friend “hub.” But the hub is with a catch. It is not exchange, because they don’t really want to “know” the other person, as much as they want to be acknowledged by them. It’s a one-sided relationship. It’s all about them and their need to feel “accepted.”

There are people who call people online their best friend forever (BFF), and they have never uttered a word to them by phone or in person. Their whole relationship is based on 140 character posts, most which are not directed to them. Some get a little too happy when they are acknowledged publically, but this really only happens when people have tons of followers or fans. You know, like the celebs of Twitter. They receive their value from who knows them.

Social media tools such as blogs, Facebook, and Twitter are great for connecting people. In many ways it eliminates the six degrees of separation. Many friendships and business partnerships would not have materialized had it not been for these platforms. However, online friends are no substitute for friends in the real world. Since most communication is done by body language, it can be difficult to gage what a person means by a tweet or a post. How you read it, may not be what was meant. Of course, you could talk to people on the phone and get an idea, but again, there are some limits.

This is not to imply that all relationships have to be in real life, but face-to-face meeting brings something with it. How often have you heard, “They are not the same as they project themselves online?” Sometimes people misconstrue, but most often the person online feels safe in a certain anonymity in their communication online. They can be loud, confident, or whatever they choose, but face-to-face does not allow that luxury.

Heck, there have been meetings and conferences where people spent their time tweeting instead of engaging with the people in the room. This shows that too many people do not know how to have real relationships. The fantasy relationship is far easier to control then the real.

Jenn Kaye seems to be correct, too many people are using social media tools for having followers for instagram, in sense of using it as a substitute for real communication and relationships. While social media has opened the world to us, it can easily become a wall hide behind.
By : Lucille
Category: Social Media