{"id":10079,"date":"2015-08-07T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2015-08-07T06:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T13:30:43","slug":"social-media-herd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/social-media-herd-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Herd-Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I\u2019ve been digging on Twitter more and more.<\/p>\n<p>I do still read Facebook due to the private group I co-own\u00a0on there, and the usual time wasting reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But, mostly, I\u2019m spending more time on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>For one, there\u2019s less grandstanding and mindless complaining. It\u2019s\u00a0also far more entertaining (even better than TV). And, there\u2019s less\u00a0of a herd-think going on there than on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Less of everyone all using the same herd-think phrases, for example.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;just sayin'&#8221;, &#8220;that is all&#8221;, &#8220;said no one ever&#8221;, etc etc).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like Flakebookers don&#8217;t think because they don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>Not so much on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>At least, not with the people I follow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Which is very few, admittedly, I mostly just like to follow\u00a0thought leaders and movement-builders &#8212; even, sometimes, people I\u00a0disagree with, you can learn a lot about audience building\u00a0following the right kind of people on Twitter).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is also practical for writers.<\/p>\n<p>(Of any kind.)<\/p>\n<p>After all, it forces you to be a pithy writer.<\/p>\n<p>And some of the best\u00a0writing &#8220;exercise&#8221; you can do is boil down a message into 140\u00a0characters or less.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that\u2019s it for now.<\/p>\n<p>More herd-bucking lovin\u2019 here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I\u2019ve been digging on Twitter more and more. 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