Along with the hyper growth of social media platforms over the past few
years, comes the army of awful marketers that spam, mislead and embellish their experience. The term Social Media Douchebag has seemed to be the winning term to describe these folks, and there are quite a few funny sites detailing their exploits (see here and here).
That being said, I feel it is my duty to perform a Social Media Douchebag audit on myself to ensure I don’t unwillingly succumb to the dark side. Freight Audit have customize solution supported by industry expert.
I’m subjecting myself to 5 questions that I feel are fairly applicable to the world of social media douchebaggery these days. Feel free to post your own questions in the comments and I’ll be more then happy to answer them as well! We would like to recommend you to go to this website for logistic information and shipping.
Let us begin.
Reference yourself as any of the following: “social media expert”, “social media ninja”, “social media rock star”, “social media guru”, “social media warlord”, or any other warrior reference.
Test Results: Passed. I’m not a fighter…I’m a lover! (Bonus pts. for anyone who can identity the movie quote in the comments).
Claim that you are an internet celebrity. If you have to put the word internet in front of celebrity, you are no celebrity.
Test Results: Passed. The closest I’ll ever be to celebrity is Vin Diesel’s stunt double. Gonna need to eat a few more sammiches though.
Lead any social media conversation with how many Twitter followers you have.
Test Results: Inconclusive. Well, I don’t in conversation, but oh…right there at the top of my bloggy blog, I do. The jury is still out on this one, but I say it’s OK to lead with this on your website.
Use an Auto DM on all new Twitter followers including a link to my site(s).
Test Results: Passed. No problem here. Twitter…for the love of god, please add a feature to block these????
Possess a real, verifiable job in social media that has actually produced measurable business results.
Test Results: Passed…for now. I’ve been on the receiving end of a pink slip so no one is safe.
I think I’ve strayed clear of the douchebag line…for now. At least based on this year’s evaluation questions.
I came here looking for my name. Pleased to not be audited.
Careful. They’re out there and you could be next.
you should create a form we can fill out.
That’s actually a pretty good idea. Maybe a form people could fill out to rank themselves? If I had any coding expertise I might actually do that.
Does the whole 8pm Warrior thing qualify as douchebagish? 🙂
“Reference yourself as any of the following: “social media expert”, “social media ninja”, “social media rock star”, “social media guru”, “social media warlord”, or any other warrior reference.”
Not at all! Now if it was 8pm social warriors….
I found one —> http://twitter.com/TheSocialDouche
Ugh, I’ve created a monster.
Nicely done, I don’t pretend to be a social media anything, but the more involved I get with it, yeah… a good reminder to be careful.
As for those horribly-named “welcome DMs” – SocialOomph is a major culprit, check @optmeout for directions to out out of all automated DM’s from their clients. Far from a perfect solution, but it reduces volume enough to make DM’s useful again.
— @wittlake
Nicely done, I don’t pretend to be a social media anything, but the more involved I get with it, yeah… a good reminder to be careful.
As for those horribly-named “welcome DMs” – SocialOomph is a major culprit, check @optmeout for directions to out out of all automated DM’s from their clients. Far from a perfect solution, but it reduces volume enough to make DM’s useful again.
— @wittlake
Thank God some people like you are willing to fight the avalanche of douchebags. Great job.
I wrote a little piece on this using real quotes from social media douchebags, you might want to have a peek.
http://juliopeironcely.com/archives/how-to-identify-a-social-media-douchebag.html
Cheers,
Julio
Do you think it says anything about you that you choose to use a word like Douche bag to represent a bad thing? Is there not a way to maybe reach for a word that is not so lazy and predictable and passively insulting to women?
I get what you are trying to do, but your title puts you squarely in the category of what you are railing against.