Update on my Previous Post “Twitter Me This”
I just want to state that all my feelings on Twitter are mostly the same from my previous blog post… The big difference is the “Follow me and I will Follow you.”
I will no longer be following everyone who follows me. It is explained in the video Below. Other things not mentioned in the video are the fact that it is just so hard to deal with the 3000 DM’s I get. In fact, as echoed in my video, I am not ACTIVELY looking to make more friends. Most of us are not. That is why I have not logged into my FACEBOOK account in 4 months. That is why I HATE my MYSPACE account and will NEVER log in again.
As stated in the video, The owner of FACEBOOK wants people that use is system to use it to make it easier to connect with the REAL FRIENDS you already have, not as a TOOL to get more friends. And it is not friends, it is a STATUS or a metric of some fake importance of something I am not quite sure what it even means.
The bottom line is, if I want to follow @TonyRobbins, it is because I want to know what he has to say and I do not care if he does not “follow me” back… Nor do I feel upset or insulted that he does not care about what I have to say.
I like social media to allow me to connect with the people I care about. I am not looking to have 40,000 people trying to connect with me. It is not possible even if I wanted to as shown in the video.
Let’s face it, no one would want 40,000 people all trying to talk to you everyday (Even if it were possible)
I saw a video for a Social Media tool today that signs you up for 100 (yes One Hundred) Social Media sites at one time!
I thought to myself… “MY GOSH! Who the heck as the darn time to deal with all that crap.”
I want to focus on what is important to me. I want to follow and connect with the people I know.
People will say. Well Mike, that is not fair.. .How can anyone send you a PRIVATE MESSAGE. My reply to that is, that anyone that needs to send me a private message already knows how.
For everyone else. there is this really cool thing called @mikefilsaime. It is a public reply that I am most likely to see. And it is a great way to start a relationship that may lead to “Private” conversations.
Anyways, this is just my opinion. For more information see the video below.
Thanks to @JohnReese and @Ed_Dale for pushing me over the edge on this and John’s blog post here that was inspired from an email he sent me when I asked him why he did what he did. (The very move that pushed me over the edge.)
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