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from brokerblogger 1584 Days ago#
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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