People who know me have said on more than one occasion: “he
can talk for England on a good day and Ireland on a very good day”
Read into that what you will but I am happy with what I do
and the company I keep, not only in business but in the ‘real world’.
But social media makes that a bit fuzzy round the edges.
I get a lot of requests to be someone’s ‘friend’ or to link
with them on LinkedIn or to follow them on Twitter – as we all do. This is where it goes wrong for me.
There are some people that I recognise straight away:
relatives, people who I have just done stuff with, or did a deal or impressed
me at a networking ‘thing’ – all that but the ones that come out of the blue
are another thing altogether.
Don’t know about you but I tend to think about the name, and
if it takes me longer than a few seconds – do I want to connect to them if they
haven’t made enough of an impression that I forgot their name?
Then there are the ‘collectors’.
Don’t know how or why I come on their radar but I get all
sorts of requests from people who I know not.
If I have some time, I will do a little digging on them and most of them come to a dead end or take me to
a place I don’t want to be ( you know
what I am saying?)
And while I am on, why should I collect 9000 twitter
followers who do not know me or will not be interested in what I say / do? A bit of megalomania for web geeks or just a
pampering of your own ego?
I would much rather have 50 people who know me and follow my
rambling on the various social sites, not forgetting of course people who may
not know me but get involved with events and things I organise.
I know this type of thinking may well keep my numbers down
and not get me into the type of following that the GA GA’s of this world get
but does she follow them? Does she take an interest in what followers have to
say? She might, she might not and I only
use her as an example, I could have used 100 other celebs / c-lister who
encourage people to ‘follow them’ or ‘friend them’ for just the tick in the
box.
So if you want to follow me / friend me / linkedIn me please
do so and I will get in touch – or not!
Happy Days
