I’m a Chicago real estate blogger who resides in a glass house (okay, an MCM high rise) so throw ’em if you got ’em. A little collateral stone breakage comes with the territory in this Midwest cranny. Regardless, here are a handful of Social Media miens that tick me off on a daily basis. In no great order:
1) Stock Photo Images On A Realtor’s Blog
My take: If you’re going to offer up something to the SM gods that even faintly smells literary, have the decency (imagination?) to snap your own accompanying picture. (Unless of course, its a really cool shot of a vintage car or dog.)
2) Blogs In A Box
My take: Come on fellow ‘bloggers,’ we all know you don’t write that crappy content about real estate minutiae that you plaster on LinkedIn and Facebook every other day. (“6 Factors Homeowners Should Consider Blah Blah Blah.” ??? Yeah right. I saw three different Realtors with their names on some re-tweaked version of that one the other day.) It’s pretty obvious you’re paying some vendor $1.26 per copy to re-brand these thinly-veiled press releases, ‘newsletters,’ and USA Today column fillers. Grow a brain, please.
3) Proprietary Use Of The Word ‘Professional’
My take: At least once a month I get dissed because my shaved headed, sun shaded profile picture is ‘unprofessional.’ It’s all in the POV, folks. See, to me it looks like everybody else on LinkedIn appears to have gotten the Glamor Shots Jos. A. Bank Funeral Director Discount. If you think your shizz is so self- important then try this: unsubscribe from the SM platform for a couple days and see how much the rest of the buttoned-down world doesn’t notice.
4) Facebook Profile With Your Name But Your Child/Grandchild’s Face
My take: Someone please explain???
5) Facebook Pages Of Dead Dudes Acting Like They’re Not
My take: Keith Moon and George Carlin immediately come to mind. No shit, Keith even wished everybody a ‘Happy Friday’ last week and he kicked it back in 1978. Look it up.
6) Bully Commentors, Distressed Diplomats From Angola In Possession Of My $20 Million (US), & All Other Web Crawling Spamsters
My take: Bite me.
G.
Cheryl Johnson says:
Hey Geno, you nailed it!
March 26, 2015 — 8:06 am
Sean Purcell says:
Geno, might I add the ubiquitous “false brag”? Did every real estate agent go to some class recently that taught how to promote oneself by pointing out how tired / taxed / or otherwise exhausted they are by their own hard work? SMH…
March 26, 2015 — 8:14 am
Geno Petro says:
Thanks Cheryl Johnson!
Sean Purcell, I concur (although I still partake in a bit of ‘Top Producing Realtor’ self-aggrandizing lol)
March 26, 2015 — 8:41 am
Melissa says:
Thanks Geno, but you made ONE mistake, those distressed diplomats from Angola seem to have MY $20 millions, not yours!
April 26, 2015 — 5:37 pm