We’re a funny bunch in social media.
We bitch and complain that the medium we’re practicing in doesn’t get taken seriously as a medium, and that many businesses are still way behind when it comes to adopting.
We call brands out – companies and individuals – because they don’t do something the way we feel it should or could have been done.
We regale folks with the notion that social media will change the way we do things forever, but then cloud the issue by not explaining in any kind of talk our customers and clients understand.
And then we wonder why social media – for all its great statistics and success stories – is still the baby when it comes to other forms of media.
So let’s loosen up. Let’s agree that we’re not in a perfect world where everyone will “do the right thing”. Let’s quit the bitching and the pointing fingers, and instead point ideas in the same direction instead. Let’s give things a chance before we lynch mob them into submission.
Let’s see opinions for what they are and stop calling critics haters. Let’s move from the same soundbites to actually making sounds through actions.
I’ve been guilty of it in the past. I possibly still am on the odd occasion. But I’m trying not to be.
If you’re guilty of it too, want to try and not be with me?
photo credit: steve-and-diane