And That's a Wrap

           This week, I have finished reading “The Art of Social Media”. To conclude the book, Guy Kawasaki gave us all the last-minute tips, tricks, and features to each social media sight that we use or should be using. A lot of these tips were self-explanatory that most everyone should know how to use without being told to do so. Others I did not know about myself.

            I am personally new to the Twitter world, so I have not been using it very long. Even when I do use it, I am not an avid tweeter. I like to scroll through my feed and like or retweet other things that other people I follow have said or liked/ retweeted themselves. Guy talked to us about addressing people in a tweet and by doing so in certain ways what people will be able to see the tweet. If you put the @ handle, that person can see it along with people who follow you and the people who follow that other person. If you put the @ handle with a period in front of it (.@soandso), people that follow you can see the tweet and should interpret that you are saying something to whoever this handle belongs to. If you put no handle in a tweet but intend it to be meant for or about someone else, your followers will see it and could possibly think it is about them. I knew that if I put someone’s handle in my tweet that they could see it, but I didn’t know their followers saw it too. I also did not know about the period and the handle. That is smart in case you have something to say about another person or company, but don’t necessarily want them to see it you can add the period and only your followers will be able to see it and understand that this tweet is about that person or company.

            I did not really understand why Guy added in tips for YouTube. I guess I never really considered it to be a platform in the sense that it is used to promote certain things. The one tip he gives about posting on a schedule is a great idea. If you attract subscribers and they keep coming back, they know what to expect from you and when they can expect it. However, when Guy talked about responding to the comments on your videos, I did not see that to be very helpful. Usually, the people that comment on YouTube videos have nothing better to do with their lives, so they leave dumb comments or irrelevant comments that would be of no value. Maybe this is just my personal experience from scrolling through the comments on YouTube videos I have watched. I suppose that there is the chance that there are relevant comments somewhere on some video out there that should be responded to. I just think that depending on the types of videos that you are posting out there on YouTube, you won’t necessarily have to worry about that.