- Aug 1, 2012
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Sometimes I wish I had never posted on TMF back in the day, simply because I did not think about the permanent status of comments I made here... But that is a lost cause... I got to thinking though about things that happened to me on facebook, when My big mouth gets to running and how it nearly crushed my business one day... It was in the early days of my business and I was still posting in buy sell and trade groups on facebook trying to get business. I was in one of those groups and a person posted asking about adopting a puppy and saying they lived in a 1 bedroom apartment, the carpet cleaner in me came out and I proceeded to interject my opinion that she should not get a dog because of the damage they do to homes. We all know how an untrained dog left to it's own devices can and will cause untold amounts of damage in a home and I simply explained to this person the things I see happening in dog owners homes.... Well that was a big mistake because I am here to tell you Dog Lovers are a special kind of obsessed with their fleabags... Suddenly a bunch of people started chiming in saying I was a Dog Hater and calling me names ect ect, a few minutes goes by as I am reading the comments and one of these people had shifted through my profile and found a picture of my company logo, then posted it and about 10 of these Dog Nuts ganged up and went to my business page and left me 1 star reviews....
And just like that I was fudgeed... My page was still young and the damage it would have done to my reputation would have been very bad... I begged and pleaded with these people and finally one by one they removed their reviews... It was a close call... too close... From that day forward I set my profile to as private as you can get on facebook and I went through my entire news feed and removed every single shred of my company name so that I could not be attacked again by rabid facebook flash mobs... Now I see a bunch of young guys on facebook and their entire profile is made to share their company name, they have their business name listed, where it is located, the phone number, ect ect... And their profiles are not set to private at all... And I keep thinking maybe I should warn them... Your Social Media Profile is for Private Interaction with friends, family and strangers... It's the strangers you should be concerned about... If you say something that somebody does not like and they can just look at your profile and find ways to damage your company you're setting yourself up for a bad time... Your Profile is not for Business it is for Personal.. Thats why you have a Business Page that is completely shut off from your profile and no one knows who the man behind the page is unless you have worked for them...
Now you are saying "Yeah Gerding but Im not an Asshole like you so I got nothing to worry about" Well that is incorrect, let me tell you why.... I am a Group Admin on Facebook I admin 4 groups and a 5th group on MEWE... I have been doing so for 4 years, and I can tell you from experience that facebook is full of hateful trolls who only login to cause havoc... Their Prime Directive is to start shit with people and screw with them in every way they possibly can, and if your profile is wide open for them to see, they will have enough fuel to do serious damage to your life... There are literal Troll Groups full of scumbags that love nothing more then ruining people... If they get your phone number you can expect prank calls or to be Swatted or worse...
If they get your business name I dont have to tell you that that would be very bad for your review status.... They work in teams, some of these groups have thousands of members... Thousands of lifeless bottom feeders that hate the world and wanna watch it burn... Make sure it isnt your world that they burn down... Just some advice from a guy that knows full well what kind of damage a flash mob can do to your business...
And just like that I was fudgeed... My page was still young and the damage it would have done to my reputation would have been very bad... I begged and pleaded with these people and finally one by one they removed their reviews... It was a close call... too close... From that day forward I set my profile to as private as you can get on facebook and I went through my entire news feed and removed every single shred of my company name so that I could not be attacked again by rabid facebook flash mobs... Now I see a bunch of young guys on facebook and their entire profile is made to share their company name, they have their business name listed, where it is located, the phone number, ect ect... And their profiles are not set to private at all... And I keep thinking maybe I should warn them... Your Social Media Profile is for Private Interaction with friends, family and strangers... It's the strangers you should be concerned about... If you say something that somebody does not like and they can just look at your profile and find ways to damage your company you're setting yourself up for a bad time... Your Profile is not for Business it is for Personal.. Thats why you have a Business Page that is completely shut off from your profile and no one knows who the man behind the page is unless you have worked for them...
Now you are saying "Yeah Gerding but Im not an Asshole like you so I got nothing to worry about" Well that is incorrect, let me tell you why.... I am a Group Admin on Facebook I admin 4 groups and a 5th group on MEWE... I have been doing so for 4 years, and I can tell you from experience that facebook is full of hateful trolls who only login to cause havoc... Their Prime Directive is to start shit with people and screw with them in every way they possibly can, and if your profile is wide open for them to see, they will have enough fuel to do serious damage to your life... There are literal Troll Groups full of scumbags that love nothing more then ruining people... If they get your phone number you can expect prank calls or to be Swatted or worse...
If they get your business name I dont have to tell you that that would be very bad for your review status.... They work in teams, some of these groups have thousands of members... Thousands of lifeless bottom feeders that hate the world and wanna watch it burn... Make sure it isnt your world that they burn down... Just some advice from a guy that knows full well what kind of damage a flash mob can do to your business...
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