Rant Alert! :)

The Social Movement has compiled a small rant list of things that we find annoying about Social Media. I think a lot of you can relate…

1. Oversharing. Whether it’s personal or business related, oversharing is a quick way to get unfriended. Your friends do not want to hear the endless rants about your job, relationship, and overall life. And your followers definitely do not want to hear about your business’ daily specials in 30 minute post intervals. If you cant say what you need to say in a maximum of 3 posts a day, maybe it’s not important.
2. Invitations. We’re mostly talking about game invitations, but an excessive use of any invitation can get irritating. Luckily, Facebook has a feature of how you can block such invitations from reaching you, but who wants to put in the 4 step effort? On the other hand, do we mind if you send all of your friends a suggestion to “like” their page? Of course not, we do it all the time. But if not all of your friends jump at your suggestion, it’s safe to say they don’t want to, so sending it again and again and again is just being pushy. Instead, give your page a shout out using your status…just don’t overshare.
3. Grammatical Errors. In a world where we have automatic grammatical corrections, why are there still misspelled words in posts? We just wish people would consider taking a quick test to learn the proper usage of there, their, and they’re. 
4. Constant Updates. Facebook, especially, changes CONSTANTLY. We’re not the type of Company that’s afraid of change, but when FB makes a change and a few weeks later makes another change to fix the change because people didn't like the first change… we’re just as confused as you are. 
5. Math Problems. We are calling you out Instagram! Why are pictures dated in weeks? It isabsolutely frustrating to have to pull out a calendar to remember when a specific picture was taken. Just why?
6. Repetition. The same selfie pose, the same picture of your baby as yesterday, the same status update about your life woes, the same desperate attempt for attention. We got it the first day and we don't need a repeat.
7. Hashtag Abuse. When hashtags first became a “thing,” they were intended for pointing out a keyword or trend to ultimately be used by others searching the same hashtag. This means, it is unacceptable to insert a hashtag in front of a sentence. Enough said.
8. Just Complicated. We genuinely feel bad for newbies in the Social Media world because if we didn't make it our career to specialize in all the cracks and crevices of Social Media, we would be lost. Exhibit A: Twitter. Taking a first look at Twitter, it is overloaded with keyboard symbols, highlighted words, and links.  It takes time to train your brain to read through a post without having to stop and decipher what something means. Remember, you will get used to it after a while!

To be fair, we are probably guilty of more than one of these Social Media infractions and in hindsight, we all mean well. Everyone needs to rant sometimes :)

Happy Friday!!!