Gramma Knows Best

    Most people know that when you meet someone for the first time or establish a relationship with someone that there are certain social norms that are expected to be met. The Internet is really no different. Yes, it is a much different platform, but first impressions online matter just as much as first impressions in person. If anything, they matter more, because anything that happens on the Internet is next to permanent. They written word is much more powerful than the spoken word. It can be evaluated much more in depth than the spoken word. I think that is one of the most important things to take away from this article about the manners of social media.

http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/191214

              

    Just because you CAN put it on the Internet doesn’t mean you should. I think a lot of people would benefit from just taking a few seconds to really evaluate what they have to say and ask themselves if this is really something worth sharing. As with any relationship, maintaining the connections with social media takes work. You will reach out to people and they will reach out to you in return. Social media makes it easy for us to connect and find people with interest relevant to our own, but it also makes it easy to ignore those that we don’t want to listen to or just have nothing of interest to say.