One of my largest pet peeves on social media is the link-share no comment I see running rampant.
One of my largest pet peeves on social media is the link-share no comment I see running rampant. What's a link-share, no comment? Well, Timmy, that's when someone shares a link, either from Reader, from mobile or from manually adding it to the comment box, allowing Google (FB, wherever) to pull the title and lead paragraph/sentence and sharing it to their followers without adding a comment of their own.
Some people have tried to circumvent the "no comment" by copying and pasting a paragraph or a sentence from the article, something they think is profound and attention-grabbing, as their personal comment, but anyone who actually reads the article linked to can clearly see the blatant copy and paste.
These things annoy me. If you're going to share content, at least let your followers know why you're sharing it. Do you agree, disagree? Problem with the reasoning or logic? Find the subject matter interesting -- why?
I've unfollowed a few people for their link-share, no comment posting, especially when their Stream is more than 90% link-shares. I usually send the person a comment letting them know why they're being unfollowed and have received my share of hate (e)mail in response.
Most recently someone posted an article about a death: an apparent murder suicide. According to the article, the killer/suicider (is that a word?) was a conspiracy theorist and the person who posted the article is also a conspiracy theorist. Yet the poster posted the article with no comment. Nothing. Just the link.
Was the poster saying there was something hinky with the circumstance of the killer/suicider's death? Was the poster lamenting the death of kindred spirit? What was it about this particular death/suicide that struck the poster as shareable? He didn't say.
So I asked. Granted, I wasn't very eloquent when I replied (I was the only response to the post, by the way), I merely asked "So...?"
The poster's response was that I am (apparently) an ass and he's uncircling me. That's fine, I told him.
What's my point? link-shares, no comments annoy me. Even when I share my own blog posts, I write a little something to introduce my followers to the post. At the very least I comment "no comment" or "parking this here for later review" or to encourage discussion, "what do you guys think about the article's point?"
They're not always long drawn out preambles, but they're something, anything, that let's the reader know some perspective I have on the subject.
Anywho, I'm just venting.
Some people have tried to circumvent the "no comment" by copying and pasting a paragraph or a sentence from the article, something they think is profound and attention-grabbing, as their personal comment, but anyone who actually reads the article linked to can clearly see the blatant copy and paste.
These things annoy me. If you're going to share content, at least let your followers know why you're sharing it. Do you agree, disagree? Problem with the reasoning or logic? Find the subject matter interesting -- why?
I've unfollowed a few people for their link-share, no comment posting, especially when their Stream is more than 90% link-shares. I usually send the person a comment letting them know why they're being unfollowed and have received my share of hate (e)mail in response.
Most recently someone posted an article about a death: an apparent murder suicide. According to the article, the killer/suicider (is that a word?) was a conspiracy theorist and the person who posted the article is also a conspiracy theorist. Yet the poster posted the article with no comment. Nothing. Just the link.
Was the poster saying there was something hinky with the circumstance of the killer/suicider's death? Was the poster lamenting the death of kindred spirit? What was it about this particular death/suicide that struck the poster as shareable? He didn't say.
So I asked. Granted, I wasn't very eloquent when I replied (I was the only response to the post, by the way), I merely asked "So...?"
The poster's response was that I am (apparently) an ass and he's uncircling me. That's fine, I told him.
What's my point? link-shares, no comments annoy me. Even when I share my own blog posts, I write a little something to introduce my followers to the post. At the very least I comment "no comment" or "parking this here for later review" or to encourage discussion, "what do you guys think about the article's point?"
They're not always long drawn out preambles, but they're something, anything, that let's the reader know some perspective I have on the subject.
Anywho, I'm just venting.
Comments
I could post the same comment in 2 different ways and they get different attention.
Put a though provoking quote as your post without images and you will get some people to join.
BUT, put that same caption in black and white on a JPEG and all of a suddent it gains some magical credibility.
I guess it comes back to laziness. Laziness on the part of the poster to share his/her ideas on the issue and Laziness on the part of the audience to be attracted to the easy read.
I blame Twitter for making the attention span of modern people nearly as long as a fruit fly's.
I told one person on here that I wasn't interested in her Reader feed, I was interested in discussion. She still posts without comment, but nearly as often.
In fact, that is how I determine I am going to share something. If I can't think of anything to add, or say why I enjoyed it, then I don't post it.
I guess looking at my stream I'm actually doing better at avoiding the link-share no comment than I thought I was!