I had been one of those people that was convinced by social media. It took me a month working on a social media campaign for Group82, to realize social media has not reached its potential yet. Everyone sees the huge audience on different social media sites, therefore they think they have to be on them as well.
The problem right now is that social media is not genuinely social. This is because of the people who think they can translate social media to real life. Everyone knows that it doesn’t mean you are social because you have a million followers on twitter or a billion Facebook friends. For some reason those numbers are still important to people. What has been frustrating to me is trying to find people who use social media platforms effectively. Successful companies like Apple do not need social media platforms to succeed. Where do you look for effective Twitter accounts? There are an infinite number of connections on Twitter that can be made but which ones are the most relevant to the company? Then finally after searching for specific CEOs’ and businesses’ Twitters, I came across this.