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Posted By: DoshDosh 332 days ago
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Category: Other Social Media
The bottom line is that social media is an ongoing dialogue and requires more than just interaction. It requires thick skin, too. You should never be afraid to grow, nor should you give into peer pressure and refuse to conform. You won’t please everyone, but you’ll gain a lot of respect among those you do satisfy.
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from Gamermk 331 days ago #
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Definitely sound advice. The written word in general is always a harsh medium with no real emotion or body language to craft your statements all that is left is the message to be misinteruppted greatly ;)

People read what they want to read.

from bhawk988 331 days ago #
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I think this is great heads up for those that might not be active in social media.  A lot of what Tamar is saying can easily be applied to regular life as well.  In order to contribute in most social interactions, be it online or in person, that person should be able to take compliments and criticism with a grain of salt.  This is another example of a "learning experience."  The key is growing as a person with the comments either way.

from brokerblogger 329 days ago #
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The question is "Do Negative Comments Hurt Social Media?"  My opinion is that it is all in how the negative comments are delivered.  Constructive criticism put diplomatically is what everybody and everything need, since nobody and no thing is perfect!

However, I recently posted a question on ivillage GardenWeb.com forum under "Buying and Selling Homes", since I have my house for sale.  I wanted feedback on my house blog, and I got "the good, the bad, and the ugly" back just like you do outside of Social Media.  Thank God for the "good" as these people took a good amount of their time to evaluate my entire house blog at http://www.greenmagination.com and give me some great advice that I have now taken.  But, I found that forum to be filled with mortgage loan people, home stagers, realtors, etc. that I believer were spending their time on that forum to find prospective clients (those are the ones that had their contact info readily available).  The "bad and the ugly" destructively put criticisms got so bad that one self admitted mortgage loan person started Googling my user name and said something to the effect that I was a "self proclaimed so and so".  Others accused me of having "hidden advertising" on my house blog (which I don't - not even affiliate links).  I tried to educate the "bad and the ugly" to how destructive their negatively put comments were to the health of the GardenWeb.com forum, and their stubbornness and inflated pride would not let them listen.  So, I then made the mistake of giving back to "the bad and the ugly" what they were giving to me, in an inappropriate attempt to "see how they like it".  I should have known that "two wrongs don't make a right".  The result was that I unintentionally flamed that forum thread, and the some of "the bad and the ugly" regular posters on that forum got the whole thread deleted and my IP address blocked from further posting.  It was a good lesson for me to learn.  "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink."  Thank God, though, that I got that constructively put detailed criticism, because I recently got an "out of state" offer on my house due to my detailed house blog.

Some "regulars" on digg or other social media would do well to understand this Abraham Lincoln quote:  "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."


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