Most People Don’t Know These Sixteen Steps for Opening A Door
A huge number of posts on social media—especially Linkedin—start with "most people" or "too many people" or "the majority of people" or just "people"—meaning everyone on earth. The posts then go on to demonstrate that, astoundingly, only the writer has discovered
LinkedOut
LinkedIn has now blocked me for three days without any specific reason other than "violating their code of conduct." Maybe that means I'm an intelligent human being who doesn't put up with nonsense and who finds people who ask to
How Much Time Are You Spending on Nothing?
Facebook has become a cesspool or radical comments, both left and right, allowing no room for other opinions. A great deal of it is factually wrong and/or ungrammatical. Confirmation bias on parade. LinkedIn requests seem to assume that both parties are
The Joys of Social Media
Admissions: • Facebook is now so complicated to me now that I have a hard time telling which "profile" (business or personal) I'm receiving posts on, and "messaging" seems to consist of crazies just saying, "How ya doin' today?" • The self-appointed
I Don’t Care If You Disagree
LinkedIn has these response categories: replied, celebrated, noted, reacted. From what I can see they need this category: "Jim Smith read your post and overreacted."
The Best Thing About Social Media Is That You’re Allowed to Be Boring
Has LinkedIn become Facebook in disguise? If you took platitudes and others' quotes off Facebook, would there be anything left? If you were denied Facebook for a week, would your life be better or worse? If people were prohibited from making harsh and
Where Is the “Erase” Button?
I get messages on email telling me that John Smith has "recalled" his email about XYZ. So I'm immediately prompted to read the withdrawn email, of course, since it's still sitting in my in box. Not exactly advanced technology.
The Greatest Benefit of Social Media
I have to admit that the ability to hit a button and block people from ever communicating with you again through social media is like a powerful narcotic. I have to be careful not to "overdose" when someone merely disagrees
The Song Was About “RESPECT” Not “AFFECTION”
Occasionally, someone will write me with a helping attitude and tell me that it's a shame that more people don't watch my videos or respond on my blog or subscribe to my newsletters or hear my podcasts, and so forth.
I’m Not Just Right, You’re Wrong!
First let me state that, on Facebook, I admit to the positive practice of nice photos of pets and family outings and staying in touch with friends, fair enough and quite healthy. But has anyone in the history of Facebook ever