Feeling the inclination to lighten up a bit. This has been on the shelf for a while. We’ll get serious again soon enough. Maybe. For now, please enjoy our second installment–continuing a concept from an earlier post and with continuing apologies to Jeff Foxworthy–0f:
You might be a social media redneck if:
- You Tweet, Facebook or otherwise send links with no explanation as to what they are. Most of us have fat fingered or mis-clicked more than once. But if you’re making a practice of throwing url’s out there without any explanation as to why you’re doing so, you might be a social media redneck.
- You Spam. If your Twitter feed is nothing more than a telemarketer, you might be a social media redneck. You may call it, “Affiliate Marketing,” and it might even make you a few bucks but let’s hope you’re sending out your multitudes of “get rich quick” or “get more followers now” garbage anonymously because most of us hate you.
- Your posts add no value. Listen: There’s a big difference between, “I am eating lunch,” and, “I eat at GrannyMa’s once a week because it’s a perfect setting for a comfortable business lunch.” If you don’t get which one adds value and which doesn’t and why, you might be a social media redneck.
- You buy Twitter followers. I’m sorry, I know people think of this as like buying a mailing list but I just can’t get behind it. Earn your following with consistency, quality content and a commitment to participation or go home, I say.
- You use your built-in webcam microphone for your online videos. Take it from an old TV and event producer: People will put up with bad video a lot longer than bad audio. If you fire up the old built-in webcam and then go sit next to your buddy about 20 feet from the computer and then, wearing t-shirts with mustard stains on them, read from a poorly-rehearsed script about how, in about ten minutes, you’ll let me in on the secret of how you got 30,000 Twitter followers in less than a week, you are a social media redneck on soooo many levels. And yes, people hate you.
What social media practices drive you crazy? Self-righteous blog posts, perhaps? Hey, it’s fair game, y’all…
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