The Cost of a Massive Social Profile
There is one case where a person got too big for their own social profile. A director of marketing at an agency gained 76,000 public subscribers to her feed. However, she did not find this to be helpful. She actually found this to be harmful to her privacy. This is because many of the people who followed her did not have constructive things to say on her feed, and made her feed full of comments that were not appropriate.
The other side of this massive gain in followers is that there were many men making inappropriate comments on her feed and she could not control them fast enough. This made her profile very spammy and hard to control. Eventually she had to shut down comments on her feed so that she could control her posts again.
However, the damage was already done because those same people looked through her lists and requested to be friends with her female friends (which included her own mother). This caused those women to have trouble with the social networking system as well. This meant that the social networking experience for all these women became out of control. Therefore, their social networking privacy was compromised and they could not get it back. This is all because one person in their network gained too many followers too quickly.
Many people think that having a lot of subscribers in their feed is a good thing. However, the previous paragraphs show how things can quickly get out of hand if a person is not careful with their social media privacy. A person that does not pay attention to this crucial area of their social media privacy campaign can easily put themselves in similar situations.
A person not only has to worry about their own social media privacy. They must worry about the privacy of their friends and family (with evidence from above). Any person who has a less than innocent purpose for friending or following a user of the social media programs is able to do so if the user does not manage their social media profile with an eagle's eye. The social media profiles allow users to friend or follow anyone without discrimination unless the user lets the social media program not to allow such a use. Therefore, a person must be very careful with their default settings.
In the end, every user of the social media systems must be very careful about what they do or say on the social networks because the popularity on the social networks may just bleed over into real life. This means that people can show up at inopportune times for whatever reasons they want to show up. This makes people very vulnerable to any type of attack that person wants to have on them. This is a bad situation that a person should rectify as soon as possible.
The best thing to do is to select a social media platform that allows a user to have as much privacy as they want by default. If a user cannot do this for some reason, then the social media user must be very careful about what they say on the social networks. The social media user has all the power as it relates to their social media profile and a person who does not want to be exposed on the social networks has the power to make sure that does not happen.
Scott Buendia consults for Bizbuilt.com. All the views and tactics in this article are tactics and ideas of the author; they do not necessarily represent the ideals, beliefs, or trademarks of Bizbuilt.com. Visit his card on Bizbuilt here, https://www.bizbuilt.com/socialmediaprivacy.
