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Social networking!

Social media marketing/ Influencing:
It’s been a year since I have been very active on social media and more importantly one particular application the photo-sharing networking application. And in this one year, I have had a few questions which I don’t know how the brands, companies and organisations work. If you have an X number of followers and if the number of people you follow is More than the X number of followers you have. How are you more popular? And if another person has more followers than he follows and has more interesting content then how come isn’t worthy of you to share his content? Isn’t social media platforms used to share content that we think is not just informative but also interesting enough to be shared on a platform? Why would brands, organisations and companies only reshare celebrity posts? Celebrities make up less than 1% of your following. The rest who follow the brands, company and organisations relate to the product, service or enjoy the experience you give to the consumer, user and customer. Celebrities are the ones who mostly get paid to share positive reviews and make their posts insta worthy, but others use their creativity to express their love for the brand. But yet the brands do not acknowledge the efforts & time one invest in uploading and sharing photos.

Social OutBurst!

The outrage of social media platforms sharing your personal information and Data hasn’t gone down too well,With a whole lot of us. And I wonder why?

We ourself like giving all information,when & where we were on weekends,liking news articles and writing message on our profile walls to know what’s on our mind. Then why are we so shaken with this news?

The very fact,Of you searching something online and then going across on to your social networking site,and getting tailored made ads.Should have striked you,What’s happening with your data.

And when celebrities are too being outspoken,I wonder is it all another publicity stunt.

The Bombay times,Is one newspaper which publishes what,You want it to feed. And other entertainment newspapers do the same too.Then why the #DeleteFacebook.

When you are happily sharing your post with hundreds and thousands of your friends.

What difference does  it make to you.

The difference is ,If personal data gets leaked.But, What personal data are we fearing? We are too pleased to have everything a click way.

Rather than being worried about social media platforms using our data.

We should see,How we could share the minimum/least information on online platform.

A decade in Social Media

Social Media,It’s been a decade since I have been  on the online space ,officially part of various social media platform.The oldest being the social networking site  and The most recent being Snapchat.And in between  part of various other platforms which did not survive too long to be part of the decade evolution.

In this  past decade the platforms that I have been part of ,are Facebook and  twitter.Twitter took over my Interest ,because  of interactions between the people who you thought you wouldn’t be accessible to Facebook for having  different friend circle as part of a platform.while enjoying the best of both the worlds .I Jumped into WordPress as a blogger,blogging my experiences of life and experiences worth sharing . It then summed up my life   as WTF !! WordPress,Twitter and Facebook . 

But, Wait ! Then Instagram took over as soon as Mobile cameras became the most handy camera’s of our time.Messaging became more convenient through WhatsApp and the online world evolved .Each applications becoming a mirror application of one another. Trying to be the one stop app.But,yet we like our apps for their own reasons.

I have been surviving on so many platforms. and the reason, I believe is the personality each of the apps portrays . My  Facebook friends won’t be interested in blogging articles or my Instagramers won’t like “the” Photography element missing from my photos of the picture perfect landscapes around the world.

The platforms that  I am part of enhances my personality perceive me Unconsciously in the following ways below:

Twitter-An intellectual/Influencer

Facebook-Anti Social

WordPress -A Critic

WhatsApp-Can’t talk WhatsApp only too busy to make and take  calls.

Instagram -A Photographer

LinkedIn-The  networker.

But,Each of these platforms tells me one thing.

That my friends circle too should  also be split into  different groups! Imagine having only a group of intellectuals or being part of an anti-Social group only How boring and monotonous it  would be.

Friendship !!

Making a friend ,these days has become easier than ever before, and boasting of having X number of friends on a particular social networking site or on some photo sharing app and many other places has made it clear that we have quite a large number of friends wherever we go .

Some of us are so friendly that we can just make friends every second… while travelling ,on the job and just a place where we visit frequently But have we every given a though to maintaining friendship? ..in the true “sense of friendship ” has there been anyone who you must be friends with but find it taxing to keep your friendship and you’d rather keep in touch with them whenever you have a ” job needed to be done “and even if you have to do it or done it in the past don’t you find it challenging to maintain this friendship and do we as people seriously maintain our  childhood friendships,school friends or college friends because we want to be with them or we have to do it because they have been part of us while we were growing up ?

Can we ever maintain friendship with the friends we made ?
Can friendship with a friend who we meet after years , start from the same point and can everything still remain the same after the gap ?
Is making new friends the way of showing off how popular we are amongst the group ?or is it a way to avoid maintaining friendship with the old ones by making them jealous of your social circle .
Is making new friends more important than maintaining your friendship ties ?

Apps !!!

What is the need to be on every app that’s new ?
With apps coming every month ,and so many of them these days .people are going crazy by installing them and using them as a way of communication .
The people are the same using these app ,there would hardly being anybody who isn’t there on your social networking accounts ,we have reached a point in life where we need these new apps to remind people every now and then that yes we are here ,and that might just be the reason why we people have to be on all these social apps ,well it doesn’t really make sense ,it’s the same people ,the same thing you talking about and doing the same thing ,while some we are texting what we are doing ,while in some we are sending a picture and while some are using important headlines to get noticed .its just the same thing
So how long will we follow people on apps ,instead of meeting and calling them and being like the normal people we used to be .