{"id":32577,"date":"2013-10-08T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.regancomm.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2013-10-08T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T14:53:53","slug":"social-media-nightmare-proved-to-be-a-key-to-my-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/social-media-nightmare-proved-to-be-a-key-to-my-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Nightmare proved to be a key to my dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acquired skills are a funny thing \u2013 sometimes you procure something that you never expected to be an asset.\u00a0 When I was sixteen years old, my mom would tell you that Facebook was the biggest nightmare in her life, and this \u201cbook of faces thing\u201d would never get me into college, never mind a career.<\/p>\n<p>In its humble beginnings Facebook was a place for college and high school students to connect and publicize all the latest social drama. To people like my mother, Facebook and other social media were considered to be a black hole of time, hours of homework and productivity were lost to browsing personal information that people posted about themselves. The point of that was lost on my baby boomer parents. Fast forward 8 years and that \u201cmedia social\u201d thing that my parents lost sleep over has now landed me in some pretty cool places in my career.<\/p>\n<p>By no stretch of the imagination do I consider myself a \u201csocial media guru\u201d, but hours spent on websites like Facebook and Twitter, especially in college, allowed me insight into my own generation as well as a cyber-universe of knowledge at my fingertips. \u00a0I find out about a majority of news from hash tags or a sudden burst in Facebook statuses.<\/p>\n<p>(*It is important to note that I find out about news from social media, I do not become <i>informed <\/i>about issues and\/or events from social media. That is a distinction that I believe Generation Y needs to distinguish about itself, we know to travel to the source to find out all the facts, we do not all simply rely on cyber word of mouth.*)<\/p>\n<p>Social media is a gateway to creating a buzz or the latest trend, one retweet or powerful Facebook endorsement can send the smallest video, picture, meme, or business <i>viral <\/i>in a matter of a few short hours.\u00a0 If you can harness the tool correctly it can be a burst of fresh air to a dormant business, it is the easiest way to create a grass roots movement. \u00a0Thus, I have spent the last few years learning everything there is to know about using social media and I have some quick tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anything old can be new again- in the world of social media you can make old news \u201chot\u201d again just by liking, commenting, or retweeting something that was posted months ago.\u00a0 Something as simple as a new \u201clike\u201d or \u201ccomment\u201d on an old picture or status, refreshes it on your friend\u2019s newsfeed.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd\u2013 the quickest way to draw attention to something is by having a burst of likes, favorites or, retweets in a short span of time.<\/li>\n<li>Beware of the \u201coverpost\u201d \u2013 posting or tweeting about the same thing too many times in a short span of time can sometimes make you the girl (or boy) who cried wolf to friends on your newsfeed.\u00a0 When a post is truly brilliant, it might be skipped over by friends who are reading their newsfeed under the assumption that your post has the same content as your previous 2 or 3 posts or tweets.<\/li>\n<li>A sense of humor opens all door- people go on social media, especially at work to be briefly entertained.\u00a0 A play on words is key in this business and it is a sure fire way to draw someone\u2019s attention to your post. If you can be funny, it will be memorable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe one of these small tips might be helpful, maybe none of them will, however social media has entered into the stratosphere of our daily water cooler conversations and it is important that we know as much about it as we can.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201clatest craze\u201d my mom feared would plummet my grades has now helped me land my first job.\u00a0 She even caved and has a Facebook profile of her own, and yes, we are \u201cfriends\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>-Jackie DiNatale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acquired skills are a funny thing \u2013 sometimes you procure something that you never expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crosspost_to_4":false,"_crosspost_to_5":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regancomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}