This post was written thanks to a number of Plurk friends!

I’ve posted a related piece on Su Comments about building online friendships.

This post came about because of a plurk by Rantz Alot about why people would want to unfriend others on social media sites.

Again, the things that get people offside are spam, constant moaning, not answering messages, and filling the timeline with garbage.

What I loved about Rantz’s plurk that a lot of the people who took part in the discussion are not linked to me as Plurk friends.

This means that the chances of them having seen the questions that I asked are slim.

People Use Social Media Sites To Interact!

Whether we are talking about Facebook, Myspace or Pownce, the message is the same.

Treat people with the respect that they deserve, or lose their friendship.

To me, social media hell would be to be a member of a site where nobody wants to know you!

People are there to interact, get to know others, learn and just have a good time.

They aren’t there to have so called marketers keep feeding them links to their websites.

Have a great weekend

The importance of friends on social networks can’t be underestimated.

In fact, without them, the sites wouldn’t be the same, and they certainly wouldn’t be social for a start.

As silly as it may sounds, there are people who think that they can join a site like Plurk or Twitter, and simply start making announcements about their web site or products!

There’s only one problem, if you want anybody to see it, you have to have friends, or followers.

And if you spam them, you won’t have them for long.

Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

Strange as it may seem though, some people still don’t get it!

I have a friend who plurked a question about his web site over a week ago. Today, he added a reply and wondered why no body had responded.

So I responded by saying that he only had one friend on the site, and that I hadn’t seen it.

The trouble is, I don’t think he hung around long enough to see my response, so he’s probably still wandering around wondering why no one talks to him!

It really is all about relationship!

You can keep your courses about using social media sites to build traffic.

The truth is that even though I do get traffic from social media sites, most of my visitors still come via search engines.

Those people come looking for something, and it is up to me to be out there helping them to find it.

Using social networking sites sounds like a great idea, but are people on Facebook or Myspace really looking for what you are selling?

And if they do happen to add you as a friend, are they really signing up for your sales blurbs?

Over the next little while, I will be writing about the right way to use social media to help build your business online.

I hope that you call back and check it out.

In the meantime, have a great day.