Social Media?
I’ve been thinking for quite some time about the value of social media and thought I would share my personal views on this growing phenomenon.
Twitter - this is a great medium for broadcasting information. I use it to send my blogs out to anyone who cares. My issue with this and any other form of communication is that too many posts lead to irrelevancy. After a while, most tweets don’t have any value. My suggestion to anyone who is using twitter is to keep your posts to important updates - I, personally, am not interested in 20 different updates throughout the day. I need those who I follow to update me on important beer industry items - not at all interested in knowing some of the redundant crap that is being posted. Also, I use email to communicate not twitter so if you want to respond to you, it’s better to email me. (this is more about my lack of technical expertise)
Facebook - not sure at all about this format for me personally. I do not have a personal facebook page but use it only for the business. Not really interested in staying in touch with ‘friends’ in this program.
LinkedIn - business facebook by any other name. For me this is about staying in touch with former business colleagues or with current business partners. I hope you will all understand that I am going to purge my contacts in LinkedIn today - nothing personal - just looking to simplify my life.
I’m still a big believer in face-to-face communication and hope that society as a whole takes a small step backward.
Cheers
