7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips

Social networks are positive, but also negative.Always exercise common  sense when it comes to what social networking sites you are active in and what you publish. Not connecting with caution and posting properly can ruin your reputation, therefore, if you want to succeed bloggethink before acting.

When we join a social network, make our profiles public and accumulate followers, we are entering into a tacit agreement to exchange links to relevant information with them. Selecting which publications to promote and create unique fragments and links to relevant information for each social networking site takes a long time.

Creating a single publication and scheduling it to be published automatically at a specific time on multiple social networks is faster and more convenient. But don't be fooled for convenience.

Being seemingly active everywhere by automatically publishing the same fragments and links on multiple social networks does not mean that automatic publishing is an effective time management strategy on social networks. It is an impersonal approach to communication that has the potential to annoy existing followers and cause them to stop following.

Where is your target audience?

Whether you blog to inform, entertain, persuade or provoke controversy, to have a successful blog you must identify your target audience and let the interests of your audience guide your content strategy. What social media site (s) does your target audience frequent? Is your audience on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIN, Google Plus, YouTube or other social networking sites? Where can you connect with them?

Select social networking sites that fit your content

Ben Huberman offers good advice in case you connect your blog to your LinkedIn profile, so click and read what you have to say.

If you don't want to think twice about everything you write, connecting your blog to LinkedIn could be something to reconsider.

LinkedIn is a professional social network. If you don't have a professional blog, then it should be obvious that becoming a member and setting it up so that your blog posts are automatically published on your LinkedIn profile is inappropriate. If you have a professional blog, practice common sense by selecting exactly which articles to promote to LinkedIn followers.

Well, if your blog focuses on your wine-soaking journey in South America, describes your love life, or if you're full of (negative) comments about important members of your industry?LinkedIn could justify a second thought. - Ben Huberman

Use your common sense

1. Be selective about the social networking sites you join.

Since social networks aim to establish your authority on a particular topic and attract followers who are related to your blog, select which social networking sites will carefully become members. Choose to promote your blog on the wrong social networking sites, that is. Sites where your target audience is not active will be an inefficient waste of time.

2. Be selective about who your friend is and follow.

Be selective about who you accept as a friend or follower on a social network and be careful when sharing any personal, much less financial, information with them. Know that having a lot of friends or followers is saying. strangers you don't know personally carry a certain risk, including becoming a target for cybercriminals.

Phishing emails allegedly sent from social networking sites, but in reality they encourage you to visit fraudulent or inappropriate websites are common, and identity thieves can create fake profiles to get your information. Before posting any information or images on any social network, carefully consider whether you can become a target for cybercriminals.

3. Be self-protective and security.

Establishing your social network profile as private does not mean building an impenetrable wall. Anything published online will likely remain online for years to come and may embarrass you or damage your reputation, career or relationships.

Recognize that your friends / followers are the weakest links when it comes to information leaks, whether on public or private sites, and keep your blogs and social networks great. If you become a blogger under attack, proceed with caution and respond logically instead of emotionally.

Many companies routinely view blogs and social networks of current or potential employees. Think long before posting any information, comment or image that may compromise your online presence by reflecting badly on you now or in the future.

4. Be careful with automatic publishing.

Recognize that manually posting unique snippets and links to relevant articles on selected social networking sites is more effective than automatic publishing. Automatic publication is impersonal and automatic publications are easily ignored. Unique fragments that attract attention because the unique wording makes them feel more personal.

5.Do not automatically post the same links and snippets on several social networking sites.

If you must publish automatically, avoid automatically publishing the same fragment and link to several social networking sites periodically throughout the day. We are all drowning in a sea of ​​duplicate content. Respect your followers knowing that each one has a breaking point when they will declare: “There it is again. That's. It's enough! And click on the following link to get rid of your followers, who bother you by sharing the same link with the same content over and over again and again.

6. The distribution of the same quality and leave to rest.

There is also a quality factor that has to do with the depth of communication that is overlooked on social networking sites. Multiple studies confirm that the majority online are now fast-reading blogs and click on the Like buttons, instead of reading or thinking about what they read and comment. Not all the publications you publish can be high quality publications that make you shine. It is quality that counts; The amount is not so selective about what it promotes and where it promotes it.

7.Be realistic when you become friends and follow.

Know Dunbar's number and don't follow all the people who follow him. Do you really have enough time to create high quality relationships with an endless number of people? Of course not, we have a maximum of 150 relationships. At most, most of the friends and followers of social networks who are not family members or face-to-face friends offline are known online to those they have never met and will probably never meet.

However, you will witness numerous articles that encourage you to be active everywhere and to automate your updates. So let's take a closer look at what that advice is based on.

Bloggers use social networks to socialize with their friends and market their ideas, skills, businesses or products. We have erroneously built our economies and societies on the principle of endless unsustainable growth and we are doing the same in cyberspace! Clearly, what underlies the endless unsustainable growth model offline and online is greed and is rooted in selfishness.

Final tip

Social networks have been going on since the first two strangers met and became friends. Use the same common sense and courtesy that you exercise online as you do offline. Be selective about the social networks of which you will become a member and with whom you will be friends. Be selective about what you post on each social media site. Be enthusiastic about your subject but not too personal and it will increase the success of your social networks.