I said in the title, “Be honest” and I meant it. I conducted a poll a while back that reflected that a huge number of people were using social media for business. This is true! It was funny to also find a huge number of people using social media just for fun and friends. This is true, too! Can they not mix with a reasonable expectation of results for both purposes?
The truly pathetic fact about both of the numbers I received is that many people were lying. The fact is very clear that although many people use social networking “strictly socially” the majority also have a business agenda. The sickening part is that so many of the people claiming to use social media “strictly socially” are the ones hiding their business agenda behind being social. I mean what in the world is wrong with business, anyway? If you are in business, should you be ashamed that you want more business? Should you spend 24.5 hours per day to be social, only to be let down that everybody hates a business agenda?
To me, this is a complete and utter lie! So many “experts” keep saying to send out 90% social content and 10% business content and suggest that people spend all of their time finding “interesting” quotes or news articles to send, and then only a fraction of their time actually doing what feeds them. How does this make sense? If you believe them, you should probably grab your toothbrush to clean out the poop they just fed you.
Sure, I agree that a bunch of advertising is an annoyance. However, to say that we are all here just for fun is a complete misrepresentation. Looking at the true number of hours spent with social networking leads anybody with the ability to add two plus two correctly to figure this out. Really, if people are working an average of eight hours per day, but yet you want me to believe that they spend ninety percent of their time at Twitter “just for fun”, you are hitting my gag reflex.
If you keep spending all of your time hoping that somebody will take enough delight with the content you found at some other Website that they will come to your Website to spend a bunch of money, you will do better to rub a lamp and hope for a genie.
Your comments are welcome … as long as you are honest!
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