“Fake Networking”

Here’s a great clip of Seth Godin commenting on networking online and how to distinguish between worthwhile “real” networking and waste of time “fake” networking.

It’s great observing the internet marketing field right now and seeing how many “superstars” (and wannabes) who have thousands upon thousands of “friends” (this is especially prominent on Twitter with the whole “Twitter autofollow” nonsense) are finally coming to their senses about all this social media activity/distraction.

You’ll find folks who auto-followed literally 10s of thousands of “followers” who are now cleaning house… all the way down to the double digits.

I never hid my feelings on this whole fake relationship stuff.  I guess it just feels nice to have held strong to something I believed in (while other teeter-tawter on this issue) and be vindicated

Raymond

P.S. Of course… having said that, I do have a bunch of “Facebook” friends whom I don’t really know… so maybe I should rethink my “strategy”.  I will say this though, if someone spams my wall, invites me to WAYYYY too many events, or tries to engage (*ahem* distract me) with fruitless and spammy crap, they are outta there.

Hmmm, wonder why I make a distinction between Twitter followers and Facebook “friends”.  Maybe because it’s harder to be “fake” on Facebook and harder to do automated following/spammy?  Food for thought.