Social Media Consultant Rick Snyder

7 Crazy Social Media Lies

The Northeastern USA air is transitioning to winter. It makes me think of holidays, friends and family. I’m wired that way and I love it.

Before the holidays, I spend time following the news and reading the paper because I want chit chat material to talk to friends and family about. Yeah I ask about Aunt Marge’s sore foot and Uncle Larry’s surgery and Grandma Betty’s dog but in between I need some filler material. I can talk to anyone for hours, even a total stranger. I’m wired that way too.

This year is different. My filler material is social media and the lies that are told about it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

 

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  1. Social networking is for the young. Older people are more active on social networks. In fact the fastest growing demographic is 45-54 year-old’s [http://www.socialnomics.net/2012/06/06/10-new-2012-social-media-stats-wow/]
  2. Nobody likes Google +. Google Plus attracts 100 million monthly active users and it’s growing much faster than any previous social network [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B]
  3. Automatic sharing of content on Facebook is fun. Not really. Are you sick of your friends locations check ins too? There are thousands of web based articles about how to limit your sharing on Facebook. Here’s a good one from the Dummies people [http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-limit-who-can-see-your-facebook-posts.html
  4. My kids aren’t on social media. Scary right! My kids are aged 11 and 14. My youngest is on four social networks and my oldest on six. My 11 year old has a YouTube Channel, an Instagram account, Twitter and Tumblr where she writes micro-blogs. Add on Facebook and switch out Tumbler and another and that’s the differentiation. Facebook is a huge negotiation I’m not willing to begin for my 11 year old. If your child has their own email account, I can almost guarantee they are on one or more social networks. Ask them. [http://blog.sysomos.com/2012/06/13/the-new-social-question-how-old-are-you/]
  5. Twitter and Pinterest are social networks too. These two networks are actually micro-blogging sites for sharing snippets of text or photos that can link to other websites.
  6. They can’t do that. Sorry, yes they can. All social networks have terms of service and privacy policies that you agree to when you signed up. You know that long wordy text you scrolled past when you signed up that changes once and a while (it did?). Social networks are businesses, they’re not all publicly traded companies like Facebook but you can bet the terms of service and privacy policies protect them, not you. Here are Facebook’s terms of service  and privacy policy: [https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms] and [https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy]
  7. People care about privacy. Sadly this is not true. You think the settings you chose last year are still the same don’t you? Click this chart by year, the bluer it is the better it is for Facebook. And they aren’t the only social network that have changed their privacy settings, Twitter is on it’s sixth iteration [http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/] and [https://twitter.com/privacy] Did people even notice, I doubt it. Did I freak you out?

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5 responses to “7 Crazy Social Media Lies”

  1. […] Social Media Lies Revisited October 31, 2013 By mariasconsulting Leave a Comment 7 Crazy Social Media Lies was a post I originally wrote last year about this time. Time for an update and a […]

  2. Rebecca Wey Avatar

    I would actually agree with number 5, Facebook is a massive networking site, and certainly here in Spain it is used more than any other social page. With regards to number 6, it seems people still dont realise that whatever you post onto your profiles enters the public domain, no amount of copying and pasting some silly legal jargon from your friends walls will change this!

    1. mariasconsulting Avatar

      Thank you Rebecca for your comment. You are correct, please check back again soon my blog is updated often.

  3. Mitch Mitchell Avatar

    I’d probably debate you about #5. I don’t know about Pinterest, but Twitter is probably the top social media network around. Sure, Facebook is bigger, but more people talk to each other on Twitter than Facebook will ever see. I certainly do. But I do agree with the rest of them.

    1. mariasconsulting Avatar

      Thank you Mitch for your comment. I always appreciate your feedback and I agree that number 5 is debatable. Twitter is for sure the biggest traffic generator to my site and you’re one of my favorite tweeters!

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