Social Media

Today’s blog post is a guest post from Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey at Jilletante Creative. You can follow her on Medium. Saying goodbye to a beloved pet is awfully hard. Saying goodbye to a beloved pet and then having a company’s overseas social media team say something insensitive about it just adds insult to injury. […]

I read my LinkedIn news feed daily, sometimes more than once a day. I rarely read the articles as many don’t interest me or are just company announcements. I was contracting at Macy’s at the time, which LinkedIn knew, and started noticing how many articles it was pushing me that were “popular with employees at […]

Facebook claims it will do something about fake news… yet it keeps stumbling. Let’s start with the end of this story: Facebook will not do anything about fake news any time soon. They can’t. It would cut their bottom line and probably subscribership more than they can handle. Let’s imagine that Facebook starts blocking verifiably […]

When 2018 started, I’d had enough of Facebook… but I didn’t want to feel like I was abandoning friends. I had whittled my personal account down to about 90 friends who I care about. So I decided I’d go weekly to check in on everybody. By mid-March, I’d really had it, especially with things I […]

Facebook created a Page for one of my websites. Then pushed me to claim it as mine. Sure, yes that’s mine. Then published the page. No I don’t want that. I don’t plan to stay here long. I’m not pushing this Page to anybody. I guess I’ll go delete this page. No, you have to […]

As I scan down the LinkedIn feed, once in a while there is a post or discussion about whether you should be selective on LinkedIn or add everybody who tries to add you. When you are not selective, they call this a LION = LinkedIn Open Network(er). Many LIONs will use LION in their name […]

You’d think that doesn’t need a how-to… I get a lot of connection requests from people I don’t know. I’m not an “open networker.” I believe your LinkedIn connections should be people you really know and at least mostly trust. I’ve been in job interviews where people were “impressed” by someone I was connected to. […]

One thing I always advise clients on is separating personal and business on Social Media. Most sites are personal. I wouldn’t invite clients to my personal Facebook account but they are welcome to follow our Facebook Business Page, Twitter, LinkedIn Company Page, etc… I also don’t add friends or personal contacts to LinkedIn (unless there’s […]

Cousin Joyce died years ago. And we weren’t friends before her death. But at some point, she found me on Facebook and tried to add me. I didn’t respond. OK, Facebook might not know that she is dead. But Facebook knows that her last post was in 2011. At least the last one I can […]

A week ago, I hit my breaking point with Facebook. I was tired of everything except the part where I stay in touch with friends and support them. Tired of the news, what’s going on in the USA. Tired of people’s commentary on it. Tired of my OWN commentary on it. Tired of the troll, […]