#Follow Friday FAILS

Yup you read that correctly and I said it out-loud and in a BIG way giggle!

Death of Follow Friday

Got your attention and that’s the point.  Are you Failing in #FollowFridays?

Let’s start off by asking some deeper questions…

How useful is it to give a Mass #FollowFriday tweet like this:

#FollowFriday these are my sweet tweet @Unmarketing @BobBurg @VAinParadise @AlexKaris @Shanemacsays @hankwasiak

• How did that tell you anything?
• How did that validate the people in my tweet?
• How did that give any darn value?
• What the Heck-fire did that say?

NOTHING-Nada-Zelch-niets-아무것도-שום דבר

(english, spanglish,slang, dutch, korean, hebrew)

How about instead using a simple easy formula (for those busy folks-like no one else is busy huh, giggle)

Dave Carpenter

I #FollowFriday @Dave_carpenter because he knows how to listen to my heart and cheers me up when I need it.

See how simple that is?

OR EVEN…

Ever wanted someone who was smart about WordPress #followfriday @Deauxmain is twice as smart

Now, is your noodling cooking yet?  you ready to roll out your Follow Friday dough?

Show us how you can create powerful, helpful and creative #FollowFridays, I know you got it in you (otherwise you would not be on Twitter)

Scott Stratten

Another colleague Scott Stratten is really outspoken on what I call stupidness, I love his irreverent humor #FF

I have added some info to this post from last year to give more information

As I have heard said in twitter  “You wouldn’t go to a party and hold up a sign in front of your face (vs using your picture as our avatar on twitter) so why you doing it here #SMManners”

(We would love to have you join us every Tues. 10pm ET for Social Media Manners twitter chat, just tweet us using hashtag #SMManners and share your insights, experiences and thoughts.)

Ask yourself this:

• What would I want folks to know about my friend on twitter?
• What do they do in my world to bring me value?
• How have they helped me this past year?
• Who can I help by sharing their expertise with others?
• What was the spirit of Follow Friday about in the first place?  Then go give that energy in your messages.

Thanks for reminding me to add info and re-post to engage in some interesting dialogue.