How Not To Start A Conversation On Social Media!

How not to start a conversation on Social Media!

“Hello” as a stand-alone! Wrong, except if you know each other one on one! Or sending a reminder on a previous arranged appointment!

“Hi”, “Hey”, “Sup”, etc! Without accompanying the salutation with the reason of messaging is a guaranteed way of not getting a response!

Multiple, constant and persistent messaging without waiting for a response to your previous message is an harassment, it won’t make a difference if the person didn’t see your previous message! Sending another is a no no!

Forwarding unrelated, useless and meaningless chain messages like prayers, funny stories or even at worst scaremongering messages to all your contacts is showing you are not educated, you have too much time on your hands or just naive. You are asking to be deleted!

Whatever you share online is relating to your brand and you are validating it! So, read before clicking that share button! Don’t hurt your brand with your negligence!

“Hello Tunde, Hope you are well. Please don’t forget to forward that e-book to my email as agreed. Here is my email address again if you don’t have it handy”.

The above person is communicating and it saves time to exchange unnecessary banters. He is definitely getting a response along with the e-book and an apology for missing it.

Now see below person who you either don’t know from Adam or even worse, a distant cousin!

“Hey”! On the first day of initiating a conversation!
On the third day again - “How far”!
On the 6th day - “Sup, I can see you are online”!
On the 10th day - “Hellooo, why are you not responding”!
A month later - “You arrogant cunt, I know you are ignoring me”!

Here is the problem, the person above has not been communicating, the recipient is probably not seeing these messages or prioritising messages - imagine having hundreds of messages to respond to. Obviously, one can only select randomly and the logic here is the subject of the message.

Not everybody on Social Media is there for a chat! There is more to SM than DM! It’s a library! Shhhh mute it!

Big Daddy

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