Last April I wrote a post titled Finding My Way- Social Media Survival Guides. The post was a discussion of my struggle with juggling the time to write and juggling my time on social media building a platform. Here’s the link: http://wp.me/p1mtDF-8h
In December I was contacted by the very talented and creative Allison Morris who had read my post. She asked me if I’d be interested in sharing an infographic she created for OnlineCollegeCourses.com called Your Brain On Social Media. I took a look, thought it was a cool way to deciminate information, and said, “Sure!”
Here it is:
Attribution for this infographic belongs to OnlineCollegeCourses.com
How do you feel about Allison’s infographic? I’m amazed that people would consider choosing Facebook over salary.
What have you learned from your social media and platform building experience? I learned that I enjoy commenting on your blogs and interacting here more than Facebook or Twitter. What do you dislike about social media? What do you love? Is there anything on the infographic that gave you pause? Allison and I would love to hear from you so please feel free to chime in! Many thanks to Allison for sharing her work.
Have a happy healthy day!
Kate~
We have replaced the value of the emotional quotient with narcisissm. I am not on FB or Twitter by choice. If FB and other social communities work for people, then to each his/her own. For me I don’t sense a genuine, emotional plasma on social sites, the type which allows me to connect, understand or appreciate a person. However, I am on LinkedIn, for business reasons. Still, I get a good number of requests to “Join My Network” from people I do not know. And I pass for the simple reason my network is not about numbers, but about the relationships I have with people. I’d much rather have a handful of people I know and can connect with than to have 500+ friends or contacts that have as much connection with me as the prompt, “Connect Now.”
Very well said. Early on when a not-to-be-named famed literary agent said we needed multiple thousand Twitter followers and an ugodly number of Facebook likes in order to be a successful author I had a sinking feeling in my gut. Maybe it’s because I’m old and wise, ha:) but I knew my writing career would not take off because of how many followers I had. It would take off or not take off on the books I write and whether people liked them or not. After much muddling about for months on end I finally boiled it down to one thing.
Social media for me is be of service to other creative people. I enjoy writing posts that help or make people think or laugh. I don’t enjoy posting my status every day and if you looked at my Facebook page you would think I was no longer among the living. After looking at the infograph I can’t help but think I didn’t chase numbers because I’m an introvert at heart and like you “real” connections are important. You know there aren’t many people who are going to agree with us don’t you? LOL This is where I have to say, you have to do what’s right for you.
BTW, That agent has since backed off her earlier predictions but to my knowledge has never said why:) Maybe she too found out she couldn’t keep up with all HER followers and do her job properly.
Thank you for your well thought out comment. It’s always fun to hear from you!
I have to agree with both of you. I’ve recently backed off social media, although as an author I don’t feel I can let go of it entirely. Nor do I want to — I’ve met some great people that way. But as you wrote earlier, Kate, it’s a matter of finding your own way. I know when my brain starts feeling like that first image, I’m doing someone else’s version of social media. Great observations!
I have to admit I was a little surprised to realize that I didn’t want to give up social media completely and I do think it’s necessary into today’s world for today’s authors. I like what you said about “doing someone else’s version” of social media. Been there too:) Thanks so much Debra for taking the time to comment.