Has Social Media Spawned a new species? Is there such thing as a guru?

Has Social Media Spawned new species…? #socialmedia

As an avid people watcher social media appears to have evolved some new species….from those that can’t stop checking who is facebooking, tweeting, myspacing and youtubing them to those who know it all, can copy those who do and not forgetting the junkies who have to have IT…

So let’s start with the GURU… he spouts off at the first opportunity (or actually often before he has created one) to tell you how amazing twitter is… how he has notched up 1,000 people to follow before breakfast and uses every MLM programme ever trialled to fill his feed with sales stuff… he follows 3,000 people but only has those who have auto follow and every mlm specialist reciprocating… he used to sell the last must have product and owns two timeshares in spain… permanently tanned he glows on his profile picture… and is absolutely the last place you should be going for your social media management…

Then there is the Twatcher… in his late 30s he obviously dropped too many E’s in his youth which may explain the nervous twitch watching his iphone for signs of life… he MUST see the very lastest tweet, poke, @ or email that lands on the extension of his left hand… it is even velcroed in the car where he can see it as he drives (that would be the one that has cost a small fortune in minor bumps in the past year….).

We had Band Aid in the 80s (and the 90s I think) and now we have Bandwagon Aid… a year ago these people said it was all a complete waste of time… twitter was for twits and facebook was for kids… now having followed a few key people they are the CopyCatz of the internet throwing out a bit of this a bit of that and well you know they really have always thought social media was the bees knees… and are milking it for all it is worth… to prop up the mlm or nlp businesses they didn’t quite get to grips with last year…
Of course there always specialists who tell you how to create the perfect facebook fanpage fit for business engagement with every latest plugin, but has only managed 50 fans… that seem to be from a little village in the out reaches of Africa meaning this Smecialist isn’t all he is cracked up to be.

Or the blogging buddy who last posted 3 weeks last wednesday and before that it was the Christmas party… more a Blogoffer than a true blogger really but hey he may throw up some nice stuff when he has a mad spurt…

Oh and of course not forgetting the get rich quick merchants… now these people have the latest must have secrets to share about how to exploit on-line marketing… they live in a 2up 2down (or the equivalent) in the back of Lidl or the 99p shop and probably inherited it from his mum and dad (you know this thanks to google maps and you almost missed it when you looked him up as it was quite hard to find…), I have nicknamed these people Crabbes ie Henry Crabbe from Pie in the Sky… not because I don’t like the show or want to cast any aspersions but because these guys ideas are so far in the stratosphere they could almost be astronauts and Pie in the Sky is a polite way of describing them!