A few posts (and the inevitable onslaught of shares) just came across my stream from people I follow. Each of these people have just shy or just over 1,000,000 circlers. Every single post is me me me me me me buy my stuff look how awesome I am & see how popular I am. REALLY? One account is very interactive with other people & one is totally NOT.
I don't know why this ticks me off so much. Wait, actually I do know. SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT ALL ABOUT 'ME'. It's about 'WE'. Every company and brand worth $0.02 knows never to use their voice online to push push push all the time. Why don't PEOPLE get this? What's worse is that WE allow them to do it and feed their egos. That's what advertising and commercials are for.
Stop using your presence in social media to advertise. /rant
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+Lynette Young I am with you
me thinks you are correct 😛
You are correct!
I'm guessing that when you have a million followers there is a great (or perhaps irresistable) temptation to abuse the platform. The only real answer is to uncircle.
over 3/4 of a million so far Lynette!
+Diana Studer yeah but I hope I'm not coming across as only pushing my 'agenda' for work. Am I?? YIKES!
Trough internet we can share, and that is what is going about, in my opinion.
Depended on person, it is shared and showed who we are and what we want, even people think, virtual you can pretend more than in real life.
The amount of followers that you have don't make the person who you are… When you stay true to yourself that is what matters.
No, rest assured – if you slip in into the BUY MY … group, you'll be uncircled by me. I like your wide-ranging woman's view of the world, especially the internet.
I see nothing wrong with "Buy my stuff" type posts when there's something new to share, but if that's all they post then I agree, uncircle.
There are exceptions such as an brand accounts used solely for the purpose of advertising and um, advertised as such.
+Aaron Coakley yes, G+ is a perfectly legitimate place to advertise to a targeted audience. But we expect MORE than just ads. So we agree.
OMG thank you for saying it! I've been thinking it for a couple weeks now. I am fairly new to Google+ (about 2 months now) and I was starting to wonder if that is what Google+ is about. If its not some nobody trying to be somebody by posting link after link after link about this or that just to get their name out there to feel important, it's someone posting about buy my stuff cuz I'm a photographer like everyone else here and I'm great. Its getting old.
I hear people comparing Facebook to Google and here is the difference. Facebook is a younger generation that promotes one self as fun and outgoing. Google seems to be a more mature generation that promotes products or services, at least that's how I am seeing it so far.
Maybe I just haven't joined the right circles yet, or joined all the wrong ones, I don't know, but I do know that I come here to skim over a couple interesting photos and not much more. I wonder how many other new Google+ users are seeing it the same way and getting tired of the me, me, me, pushing of information?!
Social media is not only about ME, but also about WE.
+Brian Shultis I think there is an oddness on G+ caused by the asymmetry between the followed and the following. For example, the high-number people seemingly have the ability to arbitrarily set the topics of conversation because of their massive reach. The low-number people can certainly participate, but have little ability to start threads because basically no one is listening. This is exacerbated by the fact that (I'm guessing) most people do not personally know many of the people they're following, so there is no one else to talk to, e.g. privately.
I can post all day long here, but unless a high-number person following me picks it up and reshares it, it's not really going anywhere. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining; it's just an observation. I do think all this will change if/when the Facebook hordes arrive, as then many of us will actually fill in our "private" circles and stop posting everything publicly. Not to thread-jack, but I wrote up a post about this the other day: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106313443642953370943/posts/b4YKKYA4wBi