Welcome back guys! So, let’s start off about how I failed last week in my confessions, and basically came off as a whiny blogger who wants responses, but not just a thank you. I thought the Seinfeld thing would be funny, I’m really not bitter about people not responding but I’m probably not going to keep commenting forever without some response 🙂 The email confession was for work related situations, not comments!! I mean what else are you going to say to someone who says “great picture or awesome post” and a thank you is at least an acknowledgment they read your comment. Ok, now moving onto more confessions that just may make me seem even more socially awkward 🙂 Let’s talk about things that either bug me or I don’t understand about social media:
- The app that posts the follows and unfollows a person has in a week. I hate these tweets, it is SO weird.
- Why doesn’t Twitter just shorten the damn url for you? WHY!?! I’ve actually started using Buffer just so it will automatically shorten urls for me.
- I only started using Twitter for the blog. I’ve never had a personal account. I actually think it is very useful for engaging with others and getting your content out there. Before, I always assumed it was posts like “I went to the store #wheresmywallet #doritos #burritos” or “Timmy dumped oatmeal everywhere #mylittleangelcandonowrong #cutest #beingamommyisthebest”
- Am I only the only one that didn’t know that HT (hat tip) was a thing? Also what is #FF (Follow Friday)?
- Finally, I’m glad I’m not the only one lost on some of the finer points of Twitter, as Miriam over at Farm Girl brought up some very good questions last week …p.s I have some of the same questions. So I guess HT@MiriamVerheyden for this post inspiration 😉
Well, if you read this post, you would know how much I love Pinterest. So, the following rants should be taken as constructive suggestions and not criticism of my precious Pinterest.
- I would really like sub-boards. I get why they don’t add sub-boards, but it would be awesome! I don’t want to have to create a whole new board for every destination or ingredient type.
- It drives me crazy when a pin does not link to anything. It is so frustrating!
- Following that up, are pins that link to pass through sites where it is hard to find the actual link to the real recipe or whatever. The spammy ones, not when someone curates a nice list.
- Are hashtags really necessary for pins descriptions? I’m really asking–I don’t know. When you do a search, pins without hashtags show up…so what’s the deal?
Really I don’t even feel like I need to bother for this one. I’ll let the cards do the talking.
Umm…again I’m a social media LOSER and just started using it…so really I don’t even know enough about it to make fun of it or ask questions about it. Sad 🙁 I do know I post too many pictures of food, but I can’t help myself– some people find their true inspiration in nature, architecture, art…mine is eating 🙂 In my defense the name of my account/blog should have been fair warning 🙂
Google +
I feel it’s kind of the red-headed stepchild of social media or at least the Facebook family. Though with the tide turning on Facebook, it may be the next social media star. I’m considering it still, it’s one of those things on the never ending list of “to-do” for the blog 🙂
Am I the only one that is social media awkward?
I have a Google+ account but rarely use it. I didn’t read your “whiny” post but got the gist that you like to receive comments. If that’s the case, I agree. It’s nice, and only respectful, that someone should leave a comment on your blog if you’re going to leave one on theirs. I have a Pinterest account and am amazed and some of the things on there but admit I have hardly a clue how to “Pin” things.
This is seriously one of your funniest posts EVER. The Twitter points especially had me cracking up. All those hash tags!!! I’ve yet to join and I swear I won’t. I have enough time saying active on Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. Let’s face it BLOGS are the absolute best social media ever 🙂
FB can get on my nerves too. Sometimes I really wish there was an “unlike” button on facebook. Especially when all my friends are posting about getting married and having babies or there whole feed is pictures of there kids. But, people probably get annoyed with me having a wall full of pictures of my cats. LOL
I Don’t use Google plus and I accidentally turned on my Google plus profile for my last blog. Which is in part why I started a new one.
I agree if I take the time to comment on a persons blog it would at least be nice to get a thank you. I know it takes time and it can be discouraging when you spend all this time commenting on other peoples posts and they don’t comment back.
I follow a majority of people on twitter who follow me. The only times I don’t are when I think they might be a spam bot. And if people don’t have some kind of bio I usually won’t follow them back. Unless I know them personally.
I don’t have a dedicated Facebook for my blog, so I just hook into my personal account (I know, branding failure!). I like Facebook for the connections with friends through the decades.
Twitter is just too darn fast for me … I go to a different tab and return and BAM 75 new tweets! I try to pare my lists, but it is a challenge.
LOVE Instagram – I didn’t really get into it at first, but more and more it is a daily habit for me.
Pinterest I … well, I have an account!
And … G+ is just some crap Google is stuffing down our throats to secure their Search monopoly.
I don’t think your grievance about the comments was whinny at all. I know what you mean. I don’t expect all bloggers to come to my site if I comment on theirs but definitely an occasional nod that you at leafs read what I wrote on yours is appreciated. Also, I suck at social media. I just couldn’t be bothered with it. Twitter I only do because of my blog and I still can’t really keep up with it and Instagram I will only use if I feel i have something funny or interesting to post which is rare. Facebook is actually making me hate people I like in real life just like that quote you have up there. There are some friends whose constant selfies have made me avoid them in social situations. Like, I genuinely don’t care for them anymore. At any rate, I’m gonna go look for you on Instagram now! Awesome post.
I am so there with all the Facebook cartoons. It really does make me dislike people I know in real life. It’s become a haven for the anti-social social media users. You never see posts on Twitter about how people are “sooooo mad” that people have to update so often and you never see anyone on Instagram complain about too many pictures of food. Twitter makes me feel like I’m having conversations. If most of my family weren’t on Facebook and using it to share pictures, I’d totally deactivate my account.
I have maybe 80 friends on FB, and rarely use it, I don’t know how to do Twitter I just can’t get down with that one, BUT I LOVE IG, and I LOVE Pinterest!! HA.
I go through bouts where I too get violently ill just logging into Facebook. Then I retreat into the warm embrace of Twitter where my dry wit doesn’t elicit cries of alarm from every easily affronted relative. I keep my blog account separate from my personal account though and sometimes find it hard to juggle – one is always getting sacrificed for the other.
I stop commenting after awhile, too, when I don’t get any response–once I had been commenting on a blog for a bit (to no response), sent the blogger a personal email about something she had shared (no response) and eventually was like, ok, I get it, we have very different priorities with blogging so I’ma go ahead and be done with this one.
Also–the idea of sub-boards on Pinterest is GENIUS! I would much rather have one “recipes” board with “desserts,” “main dishes,” “vegetarian,” etc. than four different boards altogether like I do now.
Hee hee!!!! I literally LOL’d while reading this post! #mylittleangelcandonowrong…that’s awesome!!!!
I am completely clueless when it comes to Twitter, I think I have 1 Tweet. But I do love Pinterest and I still enjoy Facebook. After living in several states over the past 10+ years it’s a very easy way to keep in touch with far-off friends and relatives, especially for someone like me who HATES talking on the phone.
Thanks for the #HT – which btw, I just learned from you. I didn’t even know it was a “thing” lol. Oh social media – it’s interesting how it all runs its course. A few years ago I would have never thought FB would become so unpopular! Even though people still use it. Strange.
Google+ is a complete mystery to me, and I decided to leave that one be. There are too many already! But pinterest and instagram will always have my heart, I love them!
I’m so over Facebook. I rarely use it since it has become a place for people to post about their babies, religion, or politics. I’m more into Twitter and Instagram myself.
I only use Twitter for my blog, too! I have no desire for a personal one.
Oh man, I am totally socially media inept! I adore Pinterest (and, shockingly, Google Plus) but the rest of them kind of baffle me 🙂 And I seriously wish Pinterest would add sub-boards!
I frequently forget Twitter exists. I’m not a good user and I don’t often even realize when new people follow me. I am very bad with it etiquette-wise I’m sure.
I love FB, always have, always will. I hide assholes who bother me.
Instagram is a grand love of mine too.
Google+ is just not happening.
I am so awkward. I have no idea what to really say.
I have all the media pages you mentioned though!
Twitter: I actually have 3. One I use all the time, a personal one where I follow people I actually know & they follow me back but I keep it cleaner, & a blog one that I only use for giveaways & such. Yet I have no idea what HT is…
Pinterest: YES! YES! YES! I have been talking about sub-boards since forever. My OCD self needs them!
Facebook: I check it daily because I live across the country from friends/family but I’m pretty much over it.
Instagram: I post way too many pictures lol
Google +: Please go away.
I love twitter and to a lesser degree, instagram. I love the food pics so keep ’em coming! Follow Friday is to tell your followers about who they should follow. I think it’s kind of run its course, though. The app that posts about who followed and unfollowed you is only free if you let it post that to your timeline. I am personally not a fan, either, though I am curious about those own things for my own account! Your assumed tweets cracked me up and I miss seeing Seinfeld on your Wednesday post!
I never used Twitter before my blog either. And I need to be better about doing that!
I still haven’t figured out exactly how to use Twitter even though I’ve had it for almost two years now because of the blog ha ha. I definitely know what you mean though about being social media awkward. I don’t get all of the fancy little terms or “rules” you are supposed to follow. However, I freaking love Pinterest.
I don’t tweet. I don’t know it’s just not my thing but I like to walk around in real life like Jimmy Fallon and say hashtag insert ridiculous phrase here. It makes me laugh! Also keep posting your food on fb! I’m totally into seeing everyone’s food porn. I does piss me off when the chronic parent baby photo posters complain about anyone posting anything. It’s like um pot kettle? It’s the same shizz you big ole hypocrite!!! Just that persons bebe has fur. #EndRant
Bahaha love this!!! Ive never heard of HT hmmm and I think FF is follow friday. I have a windows phone and it doesnt have instagram OMG! I miss it probably for the filters! Oh and Twitter… like I always feel like im talking to myself its weird.
Subboards on pinterest would be a GREAT idea. I fully support that! I personally find the follow/unfollow counting app tweets on twitter kinda tacky, but whatever! And I also support that twitter should shorten links. I’ve been known to post through buffer solely for that reason as well1 x
i’ve been so annoyed with twitter and IG lately so i don’t really look at it anymore unless i’m bored/waiting in line for something and even then, i get annoyed! #FF is follow friday where someone will post their favorite twitter users for others to follow. i never got that concept either so i ignore it. then i feel bad when someone tags me and i don’t go on twitter anymore and forget to thank them. they must be thinking: RUDE BITCH!! lol
haha hilarious! i dont use twitter – they have something that tells you who unfollowed you?! how awkward!!! thats horrible. i would hate that. i love pinterest and use facebook to stay in contact with my peeps back home. instagram is my fave – not so much talking on there 😉
I am bored with most of other social media, but at the same time, I need to keep my accounts to be able to stay in touch with certain people. Facebook is becoming a trainwreck though, in that people are using it to communicate like its real life. If you unfriend someone, you have unfriended them in real life. If you don’t friend someone, you aren’t friends with them in real life. So much drama. I don’t completely understand Twitter, but I understand that it can be used to bloggers’ advantages. It’s not easy for me to find stuff on there, but I guess I should learn how to use it better. Either way, I think there are too many accounts for me to have to try and manage especially when my blog isn’t a commercial/business blog. At least not yet. -Jess L
Love this!!! I am a huge Twitter fan on most days but some days I just cannot handle it for some reason! Also #FF is where you put the names of people you think others would like to follow, I kinda feel like it is a bff thing.
I hate Fb now! And I used to loveeee it! Eh its too much … at least twitter you’re limited to 140 characters .. or less! Have a great day!