There is something I have to get off my chest. I am going to climb up on my Social Media Soapbox for just a few minutes.
Please don’t #TeamFollowBack me.
Actually, let me change that – Don’t #TeamFollowBack at all.
What does being a member of #TeamFollowBack get you anyway? If you follow me, it gets your email deleted and more than likely your twitter account blocked. Face it, if you are looking for your 15 minutes of fame – having thousands (or more likely hundreds – and I am being generous making that plural) followers on Twitter is not going to do a damned thing for you.
However – managing your account wisely is a completely different thing. Follow people that you are interested in, either personally or professionally. It doesn’t matter if they follow you back. If you start up a conversation with them, or even just share information that you have received from them through ReTweets, they will notice you. If they are also using twitter wisely, and find what you are sharing interesting, more than likely you will notice that they begin following back shortly.
Engagement is much more important than sheer numbers; who cares if you have 10,000 followers (and in turn follow back 10,000) if you never read or respond to their tweets. I want everyone on #TeamFollowBack to take a moment to think about your Twitter Stream. How many of the people you follow do you even take the time to read what they say or respond to it. My guess is that you probably read, comment, or retweet about 1 in 20 tweets. No big to you right? Well, now think about being on the flip side of that number. Being on #TeamFollowBack means that a majority of your tweets are ignored, because they are going out to people who don’t care about your content – all they care about is that number under the word Followers.
My point? Don’t be a douche and join #TeamFollowBack. Use Social Media wisely. Think about what you are saying, who you are saying it to, and what other people are saying before you chose to follow them. Oh, and if are going to ignore my advice and continue the practice, please continue to announce that you are member of #TeamFollowBack in your profile. It makes it much easier to identify you, and block.
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