Social Media Etiquette

When Melissa Gregg talks about belonging on Facebook, it is logical that she also mentions attempts to set appropriate etiquette for a social media life. I did recognize some of her ideas in current trends. A lot of different antidotes against the compulsive checking of online media are available right now. The social media mobility should, in my opinion, never decrease real life relationships.

Banishing Facebook does not have to be the solution, because of the importance of social media in the 21th century. It is the need for reassuring of a permanent presence that social media offer that worries me. Skipping it from time to time to focus on other ways of becoming involved, self-assured and more able to connect has also been encouraged by a lot of movements or campaigns.

Social Media Etiquette videos and campaigns

Inspirational short movies like Aspirational and Look Up show what happens when people are too involved with their social media life that they forget the experiences in reality. Also in my home country, in Belgium, they have a #Bandroid#Byephone-campaign.

Another possibility to increase awareness is to go look for the facts and to see if you know what you are doing. There is a possibility that you cannot watch your own situation without a biased view anymore. Some tools can help to assess your own representativeness in social media life. An eye opener would be to do a Wolfram|Alpha-analysis to see all your data neatly structured and determine if it is compatible with what you estimated it to be.

And last but not least, the campaign of the BBH barn, an internship program of New York, launched at the 13th of July 2012 to get people to go to “social rehab” makes them regain their social skills by introducing a smart phone etiquette and reward them with reductions on drinks. Now that is what I call an incentive.

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