The Era of the Social media Snob
What is a social networking snob? Well I have a sense you are already aware, but here is a good example.
This’s the person who has spent the final 3-7 years making “lots” of cash using social media marketing or maybe blogging & teaching others the right way to do it. And while they are selling you marketing products off their blogs or internet sites, they let you know that you have to engage with the customers of yours to be able to make money. They instruct us to earn money by doing the things they did, which is to listen to your customers, know them, give them value, understand their needs, blah, blah, blah…..
Then whatever you see with this new kind of snob would be that once they have made the cash, or perhaps sold the book, or gotten that high profile job with multi-mil corporation, they appear to be finished with us (us – becoming the shoppers that got them there.)
This became common to me during the roll from Google+ with the many articles about the “Pluserati” and “Google Plus recommended users.” As I gladly went about adding people that I believed would add value to the social networking experience of mine, buy tiktok views (look at more info) I noticed that I was nothing but going to be allowed a status of social media groupie to these identified snobs.
As it is apparent then we were not gon na be interpersonal media buddies, then at the very minimum I will hope that when you follow you I’d gain a little significance from your status updates, but this’s not what’s happening. Rather we get to see photos of what they ate, their preferred art, who they are hanging out with (usually far more social media snobs), their deep thoughts as well as musings, and gallingly, more pitches for the products of theirs. The best example of this so far is one that gushed on their profile about this new sharing knowledge on Google+ and just how excited they were participating in this growing group. Know how many men and women this person is following? three!
Honestly? It seems now that they have a captive audience to “share” their information, that diminishes in value by the article, they do not seem to be extremely serious about what I have to talk about. Yes, I realize the new social royalty can’t pander to the whole kingdom of theirs, but including a couple of thousand of their “customers” to be able to do exactly what they preach would definitely add a bit of credibility to the profession of theirs. These people aren’t celebrities who gained their money and fame in ticket sales and TV appearances. “Those” celebrities never promised us anything other than a good performance, therefore in case we choose to follow them without the focus of theirs, that is on us. But to keep really people that evangelized a social media society where you “connect” with your base for growth and income generating snub us?
Now I am not going to contact anyone specific person out on the carpet here, but I want to supply you with a few cases of the imbalances of the social media pundits with elevated themselves to snobbery. Remember, these’re all individuals who have made the money of theirs off of the social networking machine by either promoting products directly off the blogs of theirs or by promoting the tactics on the websites of theirs. I am going to show you the second to follower ratio. These proportions are taken from both Twitter as well as Google+. You tell me in case you think any of these people are listening to the audience of theirs any longer.