Retirement with Social Media

I was thinking about the older generation the other day and how they use social media. I was wondering what tactics with social media do people not use anymore. While doing some research I came across this article giving me three tactics that have been/should be retired from use.

The first being, following the mass to gain mass followers. This I always found was a bad social media tactic because no one wants to follow someone they don’t really know or care about. Also known as follow for a follow is so annoying an which I usually ignore these types of social media users.

The second tip was automated or bot messages to those followers. When you copy and paste the same message to a follower that asked a question or just praised the company/person then those people feel unappreciated. People now a day like to feel things personally. They want those people that answer or messages back with sincerity making the feel good.

The last tip is to not add fluff to everything. This means adding links and hashtags to everything you do. Our generation is getting tired of hashtags when it comes to just nonsense posts. If I see a post of a dog I don’t want to see 15 hashtags related to the dog or other animals. The main use for hashtags and links is to add some type of brand or event to a post. People instead abuse these tools to gain more followers and have their post become more noticeable.

Social media like I have been saying since the beginning can be a wonderful thing. The problem is when people abuse tools and post things that should not be posted. People need to learn more about social media especially with it changing almost every day. Well that is all I have to say about that, remember to think about what you are posting and what tools you are doing before you let the public see it.