Social Media Politeness

Social Media Politeness 

Social Media is all about connecting. Connecting with friends, with colleagues, family members, even strangers! Some people connect with just about everyone that comes across their way, some others only with those few that matter the most. People connect for various reasons, personal reasons, business reasons, pleasure, and the list goes on and on.

No matter what the reason though you connect or who you choose to connect with, you should never but never forget your good manners. After all, my motto is: “act inside Social Media as you act outside Social Media”.

Let’s say you meet someone for the first time, the polite thing to do is to introduce yourself. The same thing goes when you ask someone you don’t know in person to connect with you in LinkedIn. You introduce yourself, say what you do and perhaps why you choose to connect in the first place.

The same thing applies in all situations, either you are a business and you run a page in Facebook or a private account in any other social media platform. Being polite shows the best of you and certainly adds points to your profile. I often meet “professionals” across many industries that hold key positions in their companies and take important decisions. They usually tend to be frustrated with the current economic situation and that their company is not doing so well. It’s the same exact people who would show the worst of themselves when using Facebook, Twitter or other social media platforms to show their bitterness and dissatisfaction.

Well here is a piece of advice! If you keep on spending your energy into negative 

thoughts and actions and make public of them 2 things will happen for sure:

1)    Your connections and possible customers will not want to do any business with you.

2)    Your business will keep on doing worst and you will never know why

So think it over again! What is the attitude you show when using social media? Are you being polite and enhance your image with positive thoughts and actions or are you being route and destroy your chances of success?

No matter what the case or your status if you want to succeed in Social Media and in your business life being polite under all circumstances is one thing you should certainly do. Be polite with your friends, prospects, customers, connections, followers and everyone you meet or come across. And don’t forget this applies both inside and outside social media!