Update OVERLOAD!

"Solomon says to stay away from people who talk too much (PR20:19). I wonder if that's applicable to people who tweet too much?" (favorite)

"Your constant updates have you on the verge of getting de-friended."

"un follow!" (valley girl voice)

"I HATE YOU, stop updating your STATUS every five seconds!"



Recently, I felt the need to conduct a little market research. For the past two days I have been flooding my twitter and my facebook with NONSTOP updates. AND for the past month I have been posting pictures of almost EVERYTHING I have been doing, on a trip, not on a trip, etc. Some of which were good quotes/pictures, and some that were purposely pointless! Either way I was trying to prove a point.

Social media outlets are an awesome way of communicating to the world. BUT (huge but), are we really cognisant of what we're sharing?

(i.e. pictures of our food, "my cat rolled over", I hate traffic, and so on)

In my brief research I came to the conclusion that PEOPLE find your information USELESS and ANNOYING in general, and especially when you give them to much, and when it has little meaning, or no value.

At my own personal expense, I saw a significant decline in visitation to my blog and website. People LOST INTEREST in what I was saying and in turn felt NO desire to visit AN even longer version of my social media crap slinging on my blog!

We have to be careful...

If you are like me and you want people to find what you say to be of value to their lives, you must be purposeful with ALL of your social media, not just your detailed publications.

People are more inclined to follow you and be interested in your cause when you provide information they can use.

I see this a lot. I read A LOT of blogs, especially within my industry, AND I find that there is a HUGE disconnect between what people STAND for and what they put out via tweeting and status updates.

SERIOUSLY! ::yelling:: How am I supposed to take your blog post about "Global Warming" seriously when I just saw you tweet about your dogs bowel movement!

Social media and it's many different mediums are a world wide phenomena, and your information, if meaningful, has infinite potential of reaching people all over the world!



If that's not motivation then I don't know what is. For me... I have a haunting thought... what if my information slipped through multiple mediums and ended up in front of a teenager in Africa, and instead of him seeing that I spent my whole life trying to better the lives of youth... he saw a picture of what I had for dinner 2 years ago!

Don't believe this can happen? This is the way it works...




Or if you are just fed up with pointless tweets you can click HERE and see one frustrated guys fun solution!

Lastly, lets have a moment of silence for all those friends I lost during this experiment... ha.

AND thanks to those who stuck around long enough to read this :)

Keep It Real.

Murph