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Me & my brother being Authentic

In my last post I touched on your “online personality” and asked, “What personality type are you?” I promised I would tell you how to get more followers in this post.

Are you ready to learn how? Here’s one answer:

BE AUTHENTIC!

Be who you are. Find your voice and be the man or woman you truly are. This really simplifies things and takes a load of pressure off of you. When you’re trying to be something or someone you’re not, its hard work. Being you is easy.

Mark Twain put it like this, ““If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”

Telling the truth is part of being authentic. Now, let me say here, all the truth doesn’t always have to be told.

Bille, are you saying to lie? NO!

I’m saying some true things are better not said. For instance, let’s say you are at a friend’s home and they serve you dinner. If the meal isn’t the best in the world, do you think you have to tell them that? Are you required to “tell them the truth?”

If you want to be invited back, you might want to start your food critic career at a later time. I am not saying to lie. I am saying be positive. Is there any positive thing you can say about the meal?

If not, have you considered being quiet? A wise proverb says, “Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.”

It’s not against the law to occasionally keep your opinion to yourself.

What does this have to do with social media, your online personality, or getting more followers?

I’m glad you asked!

Most of us appreciate authenticity. In fact, it’s been said, “Achievement is not the most important thing — authenticity is.”

To get followers on Twitter or friends on Facebook or any other social platform, you have to be invited back into their home. You can’t just force your way in. You have to be invited.

So if you choose to constantly rant about one negative thing after the other, don’t be surprised if no one invites you back into their home, or reads your blog, or follows you on Twitter, or friends you on Facebook, or supports you anywhere else in cyberspace or in the brick and mortar world.

Let me add another point here before I close. Being authentic means using a relatively recent picture for your avatar. Don’t use a picture from high school…1977! Be real. All of us change and mature and gain weight and lose weight. Welcome to living. Use a real picture…of you. People like to see real pictures of who they communicate with online. Plus it helps when you meet in person.

In my next post I’ll give you “10 Ways To Get Invited Back.”

Keep Believing…

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