Social Media – Perfect and Flawed – It’s Own Contradiction

If you didn’t already read the article posted out there by the national Social Media Club. Neilsen’s Q3 Reports on Social Media via Social Media Club, I highly recommend it.

Social media is one of the greatest inventions, as far I am concerned. That being said, with all things there are blessings and curses. When is it too much of a good thing?

In my most recent business endeavor, I have learned that even though social media is such an amazing way to spread the word, spread the cheer and raise awareness for a wonderful cause – it does also leave windows open for people to attack someone for any little thing that they so choose.

Although, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and all other social media venues present opportunities for many to promote their businesses, they also do make room for others to stir up unnecessary trouble.

I also read a post from another co-hort who works in the same industry, who claims that you should not use your personal accounts to promote your business accounts. While I do agree with some of their content, I do feel that in some cases, cross marketing and marketing to your friends is the best way to get word of mouth out there. I have been blessed to be able to gain clients and work based solely on personal references from friends or others who have seen my business page posts on my personal account. In the same breath, I can say that there can sometimes be too much of good thing – when people begin to comment on how they are contemplating “hiding” your posts, then you should most likely hit the brakes and give your self-promotions a rest.

The funniest thing in all of this – people get offended, people try to make you mad, people try to get a reaction out of you. The person stirring up trouble, well, was just being the as I always call them “the stick in the ant pile” and my co-hort, well I am certain the blog post was aimed slightly below the belt. All in all – every day is a learning experience, every day I learn more about the social media world, about myself and about how blessed we all really are to live in a great country with such amazing freedoms to be and say whatever we want.