Tag: Twitter

Cheating yourself – like, share, RT….

Posted on by philipdodson

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OK hands up, who has liked, shared or RT’d a post, article, blog, video etc without even reading or watching?

OK so maybe I’m the only one.

We live in a content saturated world and we all apply the ‘shit content’ filter now to be able to cut through the jungle of ‘blah, blah, blah’ to the stuff we like.

However, I am also noticing now how many people robotically will like an Instagram post, a blog or other content simply because it was tagged with #WhateverBollocks.

It’s like the ‘follower’ junkies who think they are popular (not sure who wants to be that) hoovering up followers with insincere tactics to get you to follow them, like the people who don’t know you blowing smoke up your arse on LinkedIn by endorsing you for a skill you don’t have. Now we have the sharers, who don’t look at what they’ve shared.

For me I say, carry on, as you’re the ones missing out, as you are cheating yourself of the great content, or maybe not so great, that you’ve blindly shared.

I for one will only share stuff I have read and genuinely like, not because the poster is popular or demands it to be shared.

Please feel free to share this LOL.

Changing the questions

Posted on by philipdodson

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Today I met Amanda, at a very posh coworking space, We Work, and it happened through the power of Twitter, well partly.

So sitting last week a notification popped up from Twitter saying ‘Amanda C Watts, is now following you’. I have to be honest, I don’t always look at these notifications, as I am training myself not to be a magpie and look at the next shiny new thing

Anyway, I replied with ‘thanks for following, can I ask why do you do what you do? replying in 140 characters might be a challenge’.

The response from Amanda was ‘help people build their dreams. I am on a mission to help 1 million people leave a legacy so I can leave mine’.

She asked me the same, my response ‘I am on a mission to create an alternative world based on putting people first and values. A world for the many not just a few’.

Today we met for the first time. I had a great conversation, realised that we had common values, had other things in common and agreed to connect further, and who knows what will come from it.

So the point of this, had I just followed back or replied with ‘thanks for following, what do you do?’. She might have replied ‘I’m a coach’ and when Amanda asked me, I might have replied ‘I run a coworking space’.

The meeting probably wouldn’t have happened.

If you want a different outcome, ask a different question.