Social Media - WYSIWYG

Are we having fun yet? We Facebook, we Twitter, we Foursquare, we Link-In in, we You Tube, we blog on Trulia, Active Rain, and broadcast on U-stream. I have learned so much, I have forgotten what I didn't know.


This morning I received a blog about ettiquette on Social Media. Please - can't we apply the same "Miss Manners" rules that we should have learned as children? I guess there are some of us that have to be told to put our brains in gear before we open our mouths, or in this case before we engage the keyboard.

Which brings me to my subject: What You See Is What You Get. What is your social media image? Is it schizophrenic? Is it Party Animal on your personal page,

and on your business page all buttoned down?

Anyway, my point is, as Shakepeare so aptly put it,

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night, the day, thou can not then be false to any man." 

If you are a warm, fuzzy person, let it show!  If you have a no-nonsense, aggressive, forceful personality, let her rip!  Some people will identify with either type. If you are truly anti- social, what are you doing on social media anyway? Find an anti-social site.

Express yourself, but be yourself. If you are true to the same image, the same self throughout your web presence, it stands to reason that you will attract customers that are looking for someone with your true characteristics and your personality. It also stands to reason that your business will be much more rewarding, and maybe just alot more fun.


In the real estate business we are the ultimate multi-taskers, but that doesn't mean we have to have multiple personalities in our web presence. Gotta face it, our customer/clients are smarter than we are. They Xobni us, they track us down . . . oh wait, we do want to be found, don't we?

The late great George Carlin said it well in this You Tube video - Enjoy!