Real Social Or Real Fake?
In a recent post about expressing real opinions on blogs, Are We Opinionated Enough, Debbie points out the need to be more free with here thoughts on blogs and social media. I thinks she is absolutely correct about the need for openness in this form of social media. Sharing facts, commentary, and ideas with the World Wide Web is the essence of social media and blogging. I think that corporate blogs dodge being 100% truthful in sharing opinions and commentary. To some extent they have to be very careful with everything they post.
A bad post can be read by thousands of potential customers and consumers. They don't have the liberty to potentially anger one group or section of their potential market. I believe that stepping around TRUE commentary potentially does more harm that good. If the nature of social media is to be 'social' and share wouldn't the best practice suggest truth in all things? At the very least open the doors into a corporation just a little more than the usual bogus post which extols the newest product or service? Is that really sharing something important or worthy of spending precious minutes reading about? No, not so much.
What if Debbie is right all the way around? What if more bloggers associated with corporations and big companies really offered something of substance in the way of online commentary? I think if these bigger outfits did offer REAL insight and truly helpful commentary, they could change the world for the better just a little. I don't know who said it...but honesty is the best policy.
When you are honest and do not withhold the truth and offer more than superficial thoughts a shift in trust and openness can build into something quite wonderful. As we all know, there is a massive gap of trust from consumers toward big business and even our government. How about a little honesty? It would go a long way.
So, to you Debbie, cheers! Yes, show your opinion and in doing so, right or wrong, you open up a little window of honesty in which we can all share and appreciate. I believe you and others like you will be rewarded for sharing. Kind of like how you inspired me to spend the time and effort writing abut your post. We need more people sharing and increasing the trust and faith we all need to regain, even just a little, a little more of our humanity.
A bad post can be read by thousands of potential customers and consumers. They don't have the liberty to potentially anger one group or section of their potential market. I believe that stepping around TRUE commentary potentially does more harm that good. If the nature of social media is to be 'social' and share wouldn't the best practice suggest truth in all things? At the very least open the doors into a corporation just a little more than the usual bogus post which extols the newest product or service? Is that really sharing something important or worthy of spending precious minutes reading about? No, not so much.
What if Debbie is right all the way around? What if more bloggers associated with corporations and big companies really offered something of substance in the way of online commentary? I think if these bigger outfits did offer REAL insight and truly helpful commentary, they could change the world for the better just a little. I don't know who said it...but honesty is the best policy.
When you are honest and do not withhold the truth and offer more than superficial thoughts a shift in trust and openness can build into something quite wonderful. As we all know, there is a massive gap of trust from consumers toward big business and even our government. How about a little honesty? It would go a long way.
So, to you Debbie, cheers! Yes, show your opinion and in doing so, right or wrong, you open up a little window of honesty in which we can all share and appreciate. I believe you and others like you will be rewarded for sharing. Kind of like how you inspired me to spend the time and effort writing abut your post. We need more people sharing and increasing the trust and faith we all need to regain, even just a little, a little more of our humanity.
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