What Not To Do

There’s a lot that can be done to enhance a social media profile to gain more followers or influence specific demographics as a mentioned in a previous post called, The “Do’s and Don’ts” of Social Media. In this post, I’m going to go more depth about the “don’ts” of social media that I’ve learned to help avoid seeming clueless on social media platforms.

First things first, don’t be ignorant. If you have nothing good to say then it’s better to say nothing at all. People don’t react well to complaining or belligerence. In addition to that, don’t tell people what to share. If someone is posting or sharing things you don’t like, the easiest solution is just to unfollow or unfriend them. People don’t like feeling controlled and don’t like being told what to do or post on their own profiles. It isn’t a smart way to gain followers or positive feedback.

Speaking of followers, don’t try to buy them. It SCREAMS desperation and because they aren’t real followers, you gain no actual feedback or results from them. Sure, it may look impressive to have that many followers, but it’s not actually benefitting you in any way. Just because you shouldn’t buy followers, doesn’t mean you should tell people to follow you instead. You need to earn followers with your personal content and the quality of that content. You can share links to other social media platforms as an “invitation”, but never just ask for followers. Along with not asking for followers, don’t ask your followers to repost your posts. Don’t call out people that have unfollowed you or announce that you’ve unfollowed someone. No one really cares and it comes off as petty. Don’t ask someone why they unfollowed you either. Remember to have some dignity in the process of increasing your social media popularity.

Moving on from followers, don’t swear on your social media platforms. It isn’t attractive in a professional sense and people won’t react all too well to it. You can cuss up a storm in your drafts or to your friends, but don’t take it any further than that. Don’t act like an expert on a subject or matter because most likely you’re not an expert on much of anything. If you are, however, an expert on something then don’t flaunt it all over your social media because you’re just going to come off as obnoxious. People like to have their own opinions on things and you being a know it all is just going to offend someone somewhere.

Most importantly, don’t put someone else in charge of your social media. The best way to not seem clueless or stupid is to monitor your social media yourself. It is best to take your social media seriously and put your best quality out there. If you do want to put someone in charge of your social media anyways you might want to take the time to monitor what’s going on it. Which, in that case, you should just oversee your own social media anyways!