social media ettiquette

“I didn’t see, I have too many people I follow.”

(edited an hour-ish.. 2 hours later because I used the inclusive “you” when on social media that looks terrible!)

It just then means you we need to do a bit of work to catch up. It’s just that simple. If you we don’t, if you we just type without thinking you we are telling them you we can’t be bothered finding out what they feel/know.

If you we don’t have that time? Then ask, don’t assume.

If my friend posts something out of the blue, and I realise that I have missed a lot of what they have posted I go back catch up.I don’t ask them to repeat what they said, because it is not on them it is on me- regardless of whether social media filters things out of our lives. We know this happens. We know it happens.

I am also not going to tell my friends they are just part of the noise of social media. They are friends, they deserve better than that.

Crossposted from my blog, but please do comment here :)

Social etiquette-2

Part ii- I cross post where I can so no one has to leave a site they are comfortable with. I even have allowed comments again, just no users on my blog. However that doesn’t always mean it’s easy to just “share” For example, livejournal app for android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livejournal.client&hl=en

Okay. So basically it winds up with the tiniest snippet of an entry possible. So that means the most important part of any post is going to be the subject, and first line.

My facebook crossposted posts start with the first line and usually uses the last photo I share as the preview.

Twitter sometimes shares the preview image sometimes only the subject.

Tumblr will share everything except the images.

LJ crossposts everything pretty well to the browser version, though occasionally will misread an image command (so thumbnails are totally mixed up though the link to the file works…)

So it’s not easy, but I know I can’t exactly complain if I haven’t tried everything I can myself 🙂 I’ll keep trying.

Crossposted from my blog, but please do comment here :)