Social Networking with One Million People
Social Networking with one million people reminds me of the old saying “how do you eat an Elephant?” The answer is surprisingly simple: One person at a time.
Unless you have many big computer screens and a Maharajahs mansion, you will always be writing an article for just one reader at a time at any one location. That’s right, it’s always one reader at one screen that you are ‘talking’ to, so there is absolutely no need to get stage fright at the thought of talking to a million people through writing an article for publication and syndication.
Each person is reading your article and interacting with the words that you the writer have put on the screen. If you are a good conversationalist the reader will enjoy your chat and if you are all uptight and nervous because you are talking to those one million people, your words will come out flat, stilted and hard to plough through. They will only continue reading if they persevere, and I don’t know about you, but me as a writer would much prefer my readers to enjoy our conversation, no matter how one sided it actually is.
The good thing about the internet though is that these conversations no longer need be one sided. People can now comment and start up conversations back with you via the comment section on blogs. This is every writers hope, that someone will reply to their opinion or thoughts on any given subject and that other readers will chime in and add their two cents worth to get a friendly and fun group together all talking and sharing information and opinions on the same subject.
This interaction is really what Google with all their latest updates and inclusions is after. People having conversations and actually communicating.
The real problem today is that many people are unable to communicate well through words. They either have a very limited vocabulary, are too lazy to write more than six words at a time or they can’t spell the words they would prefer to use. This is very sad because for the first time in history people have a way to communicate with everyone else but are now limited by their inability to do so coherently.
So to overcome this educational defect or character flaw, people have evolved ways around it by reverting to “text” talk. Text talk is where words are abbreviated into one or two syllables to get their meaning across. It works but is a really big limitation on conversations and sharing of ideas and concepts because it is such a limited means of communication.
Communication is about sharing a whole range of many different things in many different ways and as long as you can find your group to communicate with, you will never be alone providing you input your personality, thoughts, ideas, share your knowledge and are able to get something back from other people; then you have communicated well even if it has only been in text talk.
The operative word here is “talk” and that’s what you will always be doing with each and every article that you write and gets read by each one of those one million people because it will always only ever be read by one person at a time.