I love social media. It often feels like a holiday home where I enjoy staying. I have nice conversations, hear incredibly interesting information, meet new people and there is more than enough to laugh about. A fantastic holiday village. However, looking back on 2011, I have often had the feeling that there were unpleasant guests in the holiday village. In other words, people you meet at Christmas and your mother-in-law's birthday and whose company gives you as much joy as a vegetarian when he sees the butcher's section of a supermarket.
Unwanted visitors
In the meantime I have come to recognize these unwanted visitors and have denied some of them access to my benin phone number list holiday home. Block , hide and unfollow , that works. For you, fellow residents of the holiday village where it is often so nice to be together, I would like to give a description of these types so that you can recognize them from a distance in 2012. What you do with it yourself is then up to you.
1. The shouting self-employed person
This unpleasant guest at our holiday park has heard that you 'have to be on social media' to get customers. He mainly shows up to tweet about his or her own service or product, to link just a little too often to the new (e-)book that has just been written or to tell us about a workshop where there are virtually 'only 3 places left'. This guest knows that there is an advertising column for this kind of thing at our holiday park, but he doesn't care. He uses social media in a way that old marketers do: one-way traffic. You can recognize this guest most quickly by the hashtag #zinin that is accompanied by a description of the product that needs to be sold, or the service provided.
2. The RSS-er
You will recognize this soulless guy immediately when a new article appears on Marketingfacts, Frankwatching, Dutch Cowboys or (fill in a name here). Almost at the same time, a message appears on a social media channel with a reference to this article. They use the RSS technique that, when placing new content on a site, places this content on all social media channels where the RSS person has an account. Companies without any knowledge of social media etiquette also often apply this technique. When I started on Twitter in 2007, I was really surprised by this and I was convinced that these people were busy 16 hours a day for us to keep an eye on the latest news in order to be the first to place it for us. In this case, the following now applies to me: 'the first shall be last' and I press Unfollow or Hide .