Most, if not all of us biz-e-chicks are on Facebook. We love to see and hear what our fellow peeps are doing, even if we only have a couple minutes to check our favorite social networking site. Status updates are the best at keeping us connected to one another. We may not have time to visit your page, check out your Wall and leave you a message; but, chances are we have time to glance at your status and leave a quick comment about it.
So, how do you decide what to post as your status? Do you post only business-related updates? Only personal updates? Do you only write only about things that are funny or happy? (By the way, do you notice that “bad” things rarely happen in a status? You usually don’t see “XXX had a huge fight with her husband today. Or, “XXX overdrew her bank account today … again.”)
I usually write about the fun or interesting things that have happened that day. I posted recently about how I was still cracking up about a conversation I heard on the elevator between two women who were discussing what a third, not-present woman needed to do to keep her man. Their solution was for her to keep her legs closed. Within seconds of writing that, the notifications that “so-and-so has made a comment about your status” were flooding in. It’s funny how the silliest, most random things get the most attention. But, I guess since that’s true in real life, it would be true on Facebook, too.
So, what about you chicks? How do you choose what your status update will be? Is it really what you’re doing “right now”? Which of your updates have attracted the most attention? And, why do you think that is?
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Twitter me This
So, I’m twittering. This gives Summer endless delight, as it’s something I said I would not do. (I also said this about Facebook and did not stick to that either, so she expected me to succumb to the peer pressure sooner or later.)
Yes, fine, I do see the value in Twitter now. Most of the people I follow have meaningful things to “say” and good advice/tips/experiences to share … kind of like biz-e-chicks. Others, though, don’t have a clue, which led me to explore some Twitter rules of etiquette online. Here are some helpful hints on being a good Twitterer:
1. It may be very fascinating to you that you’re running to the store for milk, but most people don’t care. Remember that people are spending a portion of their day (no matter how tiny) reading your updates and interacting with you, so respect their valuable time.
2. If you’re using Twitter as a business mouthpiece, don’t tweet after (or even while) you’ve been drinking. Posting “I am so drunk. I shouldn’t have done all those Jaeger shots.” is not going to help you land clients and will most likely take away some of your business.
3. Don’t tweet nonstop. I’ve come across some people who are tweeting every 15 minutes to half hour. Not only is all of the information they post not useful or even interesting, it makes you wonder what the heck is up with these people. Do they not work? Are they so into themselves that they think everything that comes into their mind is so fascinating that they must share it with the world? This sets my creep factor on high alert.
4. Do you notice how the little box up top says “What are you doing?” Do you notice how many people fail to answer this question? I never thought about this, but it’s true! Try to answer that question. This is actually a great exercise to keep yourself on track during the day and find out how you’re really spending your time.
5. Be brief. This should go without saying – since you’re limited to 140 characters – but some people continue their posts through multiple tweets. It can be annoying and time-consuming to try to track someone’s thought through a lengthy list of tweets.
Alright, that’s all I have after my few days on Twitter. I’m sure there will be more as I become more entrenched in Twitterville – ugh, did I really just write that! Stop laughing, Summer.