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What is your biggest social media pet peeve, chaps? What drives you round the twist on Twitter? What gets your proverbial goat on Facebook and LinkedIn? Let’s have a frank discussion.
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Frenchie Aguilh • Oof, when people use hashtags in their statuses on Facebook. That gets me every time.
Marta Krukowska • Posting Twitter optimised content on G+
Leah Birch • ‘Every [insert number of seconds] at least [insert description and number of people/animals/minerals] are [insert consequence] because of [insert cause] REPOST IF YOU CARE!! I know who will care enough to repost!!! Most people won’t be brave enough to repost!! Do you CARE enough to be ONE of them???!!!’ [Insert picture of baby with angel wings/sad puppy/desolate landscape]
Paul Hutchinson • Use of the word ‘guru’ in bios, text speak from so called professionals, not receiving a ‘thank you’ when you mention someone in your #FF.
Using Hootsuite to post to every platform without taking the time to amend that post appropriately for individual platform styles. Being lazy is not what Hootsuite is for and hastags on FB do not work…. yet!
Richard Wright • People not making an effort with grammar – it is a common courtesy to the reader as I am sure Marketing Chap will agree.
Mike Brooks • Automatic direct messages on Twitter after following. I have never read one, I will never read one and I just don’t want it, I don’t want it!
Now to pick the toys up off the floor.
Mark Etingchap • My personal bete noir are self-proclaimed social media gurus who send automated TruTwit direct messages. It grates awfully, chaps.
Samantha McFarlane • 1. People who use #hashtags on #facebook #updates!! #CantStandIt #DontDoIt
2. People who send auto email replies!! 🙂
Gillian Andrew • I CAN’T STAND when people use hash tags on facebook!! Also #people #who #hashtag #every #word.
Oh and poor grammar and punctuation on social media.
Kristian Valdini • Hmmmm – seems inevitable folks. http://inklingmedia.net/2013/03/20/the-many-uses-of-hashtags/
Charlotte Healey • I think my biggest peeves have been mentioned already, but I’ll recite them anyway: #hashtags on Facebook
#general #over-use #of #hashtags #and #hashtags #that #mean #absolutelynothing
The ‘re-post if you care’ posts
People who moan about everything at every given moment
People who steal your Tweets word for word (including your links) and don’t credit you
Ryan Wallman • Chap, I feel compelled to mention: a) rapid-fire, stream-of-consciousness tweeting from conferences and seminars; b) glib statements of the obvious, particularly those relating to ‘best practice’ in the use of social media; c) poor grammar from supposed experts in communications; and d) management-speak. Of those crimes, d) is the most heinous in my book.
Kristian Valdini • Top of the list goes to those that continually post ‘model’ styled photo’s of themselves – when they are not models.
“Oh how did that happen” / “Just happened to be looking over there”… the front to ask random people to take these awful shots in the first place is what gets me more than the images themselves…
Dennis Brown • Most of the aforementioned, but most of all… bigots.
What is it about social media that makes some people think they can broadcast their own personal prejudices, hates and ignorance (normally with the addition of abusive language) with little or no concern for others? Guess it’s similar to what comes over some people when they’re driving and suddenly they change from being a calm & considerate individual to a foul-mouthed aggressor at the slightest provocation!
But oh, the irony – there’s me broadcasting my hates about social media! Woops…
Gail Bellmaine Smith (@PRGail) • Social media was made to further conversations and to make ingenious and “never-before-possible” connections between industry professionals. In PR, that’s so important! Given that purpose, my social media pet peeve occurs when “social media-twitter-hogs” snub other PR professionals when they make attempts to start interesting and relevant conversations about new technology, changes in PR, the list goes on… Twitter is quickly becoming a stream of one-sided messages shooting at followers.
Re-group PR people. Let’s keep the conversation going!
Mike Brooks • Mike hates it when an individual’s LinkedIn summary is written in the 3rd person. Mike thinks this is a sure sign of a corporate washout or an incurable ego complex. Mike also thinks no one is important enough to warrant having their LinkedIn written by a third party, and those who think they are important enough almost certainly are not.
Jemma Beedie • Sponsored posts. I don’t want to ‘Like’ if I agree that breathing is great, cheers, Febreeze (or something equally inane). I want to look at pictures of my pal’s new baby and see who’s in a complicated relationship this week.
sumit gupta • Chaps! My biggest peeve on Linkedin is when some of our connections post so many updates everyday.I reckon posting an update twice or thrice a week is ok but some chaps
and chappettes have a habit of updating us with tons of information everyday.So every morning,our home page on Linkedin is literally inundated with their updates.
I often tend to hide such guys from my home page:)
What do you chaps reckon?
Simon Rogers • I dislike pointless FB entries with thinly veiled maths tests. Also the ‘enter 1’ nonsense.
Twitterers who follow and unfollow and follow again
LinkedIn requests from people who I have never met and for whom I can do very little
There is a growing trend for significant people to outsource their Twitter and FB accounts. OK, I appreciate that leaders can be busy people. Last year Barack Obama began adding his initials to the Tweets that he actually posted; refreshing transparency for a politician.
But now Australia’s PM Julia Gillard (@JuliaGillard) has taken this one step further; using JG for personal Tweets, the initials TeamJG (I guess her office), as well as no initials for other Tweets (unknown)… So it is like 3 different groups (at least) are running this account! Yes there is transparency, but the dialogues from this account are getting very crowded.
On Twitter it’s people referring to themselves as “gurus”, “nerds”, or “geeks”.
I hate those anti-social hashtag+ location hours (eg, Staffordshirehour etc) where your timeline is littered with selling messages (if it isn’t possible to mute them on the app you are using).
Automated DMs that say “thanks for following” etc. I usually unfollow as soon as I get one.
People not responding at all to your comment at all (because they don’t follow you) – once is fine as it might be missed, but repeatedly is just v rude. Again, I unfollow people like that.
Er, that’ll do for now. I’ll not start on FB or I’ll be here for ever!
As a consultant why would I give away free to complete strangers information that I charge a fee from clients? Happy to give advice and guidance but not my hard work based on skill, years of knowledge and experience (whether self employed or not).
The best one I read was someone asking for a very elementary policy and after 5 days they had not received any response, so then they posted in an aggreived manner ‘I asked for a [whatever] 5 days ago and haven’t received anything yet’. What a cheek.
Will get off soapbox now and slink back into the shadows from whence HR types lurk ……..
On to live-tweeting: It has its place, but this chapette is of the opinion that place is in the context of urgent, breaking news, not the mundane details of the local town council meeting (although, one’s local chapette does a brilliant job of just this type of reporting). The argument could be made that such details can be shared in the meeting minutes, which hopefully can be posted sooner rather than later.
Finally, one will give a well-deserved shout out to the Marketing Chap blog from March 14 on the “perfect tweet”. A tip of the hat for the observation that “Twitter is the ultimate online cocktail party.” One was already cutting back on the routine retweets, feeling like they were getting to be too much like Facebook likes, without building community and social engagement. Ditto for the favourites. Now, this chapette feels more care must be taken to spark more engagement and actual conversation in her tweets – not in the league of Coca-Cola, but certainly with more thought and yes, dazzle.
Would that I could have said it all as succinctly and eloquently as Michelle, above. All of the above really don’t build relationships over social media, do they?!
Facebook riles me more; I care about a great many causes, but me clicking like isn’t going to save that baby from cancer. That baby doesn’t even HAVE cancer, it’s a stock photo or stolen from google images. I dislike being made to feel guilty when I just want to find out who out of my old school mates got fatter than me.
Most annoying is when someone replies to every single thing I post, before I’ve even had chance to breathe afterwards, and who interrupts every conversation I have with others on any media even when they have nothing of use to add; not everything is relevant to every person.
If you can’t bothered to say something original, or engage with people in real time, don’t bother with social media at all. It’s like sending a cardboard cut-out of say, Aristotle to a party instead of attending yourself.
I loathe the ‘Share your Facebook for ‘Likes” threads. In theory I’ve no problem with them, however so often people just put up a link to their Page with no information, no bio, no background on why it may be a good idea for us to connect.
I also despise auto-replies. I don’t care how ‘big’ you are, hire a social media manager to *actually* interact with people or do it yourself.
I’ll unfollow bands who send them as I feel it shows nothing apart from their unwillingness to interact with their fans and put forth real effort in their career.
*steps down from soapbox*
Mark Carr • I t has to be invitations to ridiculous events that are on a different planet or timescale to where I am or opperate
Christine Infanger • @Mark, I agree. Not only does it show laziness as it’s apparent that those residing in London are probably *not* going to attend your shindig in Guam with 3 days notice, it also seems ‘spammy.’
Lauren Hug • All of mine have already been mentioned, but I owe Paul Hutchinson an apology re: “not receiving a ‘thank you’ when you mention someone in your #FF”. I’m an infrequent #FF practitioner, primarily because I find it hard to keep up with thanking everyone who mentions me in a #FF. I try to make sure to say thank you when the #FF is singular and personal, but I have trouble keeping track of #FF list mentions. That said, I always appreciate being included, and, thanks to Paul’s comment, I will try harder to recognize those who include me.
And BTW, Christine and Mark, you are both invited to my b-day happy hour celebration starting in 3 hours in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 🙂
Paul Hutchinson • Ahh Lauren you are simply wonderful. 🙂
Of course saying thank you can be a bit more involved than the ‘black & white’ situation I’ve made it sound like. If you have multiple mentions it can be difficult (and annoying to other followers) to say thank you to them all.
I’ve found that saying a general thank you at the end of the day is met with a positive response, it’s less personal but I think those that have #FFd you understand that personal responses to every tweet, ever time are not always practical.
🙂
Dennis Brown • Oh Paul, you old smoothie! What a wonderfully diplomatic response, I’m impressed 😉
Luke Harris • Automated DM’s
“Thanks for following me on Twitter – I really think you would like the content we produce [insert brand website here] / the blog I write [insert conceited blog address here]. Have a good day!”
Alex Sloane • I have a top three of pet peeves which I think are pretty standard for most people;
3 – Invites to play various Facebook games, I find ‘Farmville’ to be highly peevish.
2 – Stories which need to be shared or awful things will happen to you.
1 – Hash tagging on Facebook, specifically over hash tagging. An example from one of my contacts in relation to a necklace (apologies if you are reading) – #giraffe #pandora #random #prezzie #lucky #spoilt #girl… i don’t even need to see the image now I can pretty much visualise every element of it in my head, maybe the written word is the new photo.
Deborah Wroe • I could add to this daily, but as I tweeted today…’My current bugbear…”Hello @ whoever, I want to tell you something”. Tell them then, not all of us, thanks’
Lauren Hug • Alex, I’m pretty sure that #3 on your list is a cross-post from Instagram. I was perturbed when those hashtag lists accompanying a photo started showing up in my Facebook feed. Then I got on the Instagram bandwagon and realized that insane hashtagging is the norm on that platform. Of course, if one intends to cross-post an Instagram photo, hashtagging could be minimized out of respect for the communication norms of other platforms.
Alex Sloane • I suppose that is main point there; hashtags work on twitter, not on FB. Multiple hashtags work on Instagram and have no purpose on FB. Therefore if a person finds it necessary to share a necklace (a very nice necklace don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the necklace), I would simply construct the list of hashtags into a short sentence.
Gemma Pettman MCIPR • Elizabeth Locke you are spot on with your Facebook observation. I find I am much more tolerant of niggley things on Twitter and Linked In but the flood of ‘click if you’re against… cancer/child abuse/animal cruelty’ etc really gets on my nerves. Fortunately I have worked out how to remove these posts from my feed.
Paul Hutchinson • I have a new pet peeve! *fanfare*
People who don’t adjust the settings for whatever plug-in they use to re-post old blog articles. My reasons are twofold:
1, Half the articles are really, really old and no longer relevant. Please adjust the time limit so we only get relatively recent posts.
2, The post is prefixed with phrases like ‘worth a read’ and ‘interesting post’. This is fine if you’re pointing to someone else’s article but when it’s your own it’s pretentious. Surely the reader will decide if what you’ve written is interesting or worthy or most likely not.
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Dennis Brown • Paul: I’d add to your “worth a read” or “interesting post” point, that it’s even more annoying when no further classification or indication of content is given… ‘interesting’ to one is irrelevant & a waste of time to another; please people, give us a clue what a post’s about!
Christie NiDonnell, CSPO • Oh. You mean when I get a DM saying, “thanks for the follow”, it’s not PERSONAL? [Fanning self in dismay] Je suis désolée! I believe…yes, I believe I need a wee drap to revive my injured sensibilities.
Sylvie St-Amand • Might be guilty of a couple of those unfortunately, but hopefully not too many. I am new to most platforms and am hoping to learn from you chaps and chapettes! What gets me is shameless selling tactics and people too concerned with number of followers who don’t bother to exchange – I thought social media was meant to socialize? Especially in the communications field, you’d think folks would understand this basic PR principle. Not always so, I find…
Leah Smallman • Wow, amazing the response you get when you request people to have a gripe! My gripe is re linked in and the way a conversation appears over and over again each day even though there is no conversation going on…. It would be good if you could mark a conversation with in a group with not interested in that particular conversation so it doesn’t hit my inbox again. Does any one know if you can do this?
Dennis Brown • Hi Leah, do you mean so you don’t get email notifications about it again, or so that you don’t see it online within LinkedIn?
If it’s the former, you can stop receiving emails about any particular discussion by clicking the ‘Stop following this discussion’ link at the foot of the “New comment on…” emails.
If it’s the latter, you can choose between two views within Groups: “What’s Happening”, which displays the most popular discussions first, or “Latest Discussions”.
And finally, you can also ‘hide’ updates from particular people from your ‘home’ page updates on LinkedIn by clicking on the ‘hide’ link that appears in the top-right corner when you hover your mouse over a person’s post (it doesn’t appear for posts by companies, as you can choose to ‘stop following’ these instead). Don’t know about you, but my LinkedIn home page can be monopolised by two or three individuals’ multiple-posts at times – it’s quite refreshing to be able to cleanse it with a single click!
Nikita Adnani • @Leah You can “Hide” a Contact and still stay connected but not see any of their Posts. I don’t think that you can hide a Post once you have joined a Group. It would be a neat feature to have though.