Sunday, August 4, 2013

Social Media Mistakes & Fixes

I read a post recently about singing the Star Spangled Banner before you hit send on a fiery comment or Facebook rant.

Wait! The next time you want to press SEND 
sing “The Star Spangled Banner” first!

Next time you are dying to press send to
Tweet that terrible thought......
Facebook a fictitious fact …........
Google a grand gaffe......
Comment carelessly......

Try singing “The Star Spangled Banner”.
It should take you about 1 ½ minutes...
Time enough for you to enjoy the brief satisfaction of speaking your mind and long enough for you to realize that you could lose a lot more if you pressed send.

Unfortunately this does not always happen as we're human and get swept up in the moment.

We've all seen the "salesy" comment in groups that blatantly screams "Please don't come on here and sell your self or company," yet the person finds it necessary to do so. The mass linkedin email saying bring me an offer on my new listing to everybody under the sun.

Whatever the case is you have most likely made a mistake on some sort of social media platform and learned from it.

What is a mistake you've made on social media and what have you done to fix it and/or make sure you never do it again???

Give us some insight as to what happened and what you did to fix it or what lesson you learned to correct the behavior in the future. You just might save another from making the same mistake.