Warning: The following post is a rant about human behaviour. You may be offended. Deal with it.
I use Twitter. I like Twitter. I dislike many Twitter users, and here is why.
When I follow someone, I often get a direct message (DM) automatically sent to me. It will often say something like “Thanks for following me, I look forward to connecting!” It is a nice sentiment, even though I know it was auto-generated.
Sometimes they will say “Thx for the follow. Want to be rich without working? Check out my website at www.AnotherLameMLM.com.”
Or, they will try to directly sell me one of their services.
Listen, I just met you. I do not want to become your business partner. Trying to close a sale right away is like meeting me for the first time in a bar and asking me to go to bed with you.
I recently went into some more thoughtful and less snarky detail about this in a post entitled “Green Slime Networking.”
So that’s it. Take me to dinner first, wine and dine me. Maybe then we can consumate the relationship. I love meeting new people and developing relationships. I am, of course, speaking in Twitter terms here. I am not inviting you all to actually try to pick me up and have relations with me. My wife may get annoyed if that happened.
