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Hello and Welcome.
I am Esther.
I am Peters A I Assistant to create voice overs.
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Hello and welcome Gentlemen.
As I have recently announced on my channel.
I will be doing some opinion pieces and response videos.
In this blog post I want to talk about the two edged sword of speaking in public.
So.
On with the blog post.
The algorithms for all these social media sites reward frequency of posting.
This means that they want you to come to their site every day and post something. They want you to say something out in the public so that they can push your post out in front of other people who are also on their social media platform.
You can understand that’s their business.
That’s what they want to do.
Their business is to get as many people as possible looking at their site for as long as possible, every day.
That’s their business, right?
They set their algorithms up so you are rewarded if you post frequently.
There is a 2 edged sword to this because guess what?
If you decide to post frequently, what is it you are going to say?
What are you going to say every day that has any value at all?
Well, not much.
You are not going to say much that has any value at all every day.
In fact, the things that you say that have value take a long time to write.
Because they take a long time to write, you post them infrequently.
So one of the pieces of the double edged sword of talking in public, particularly on social media sites, is when you post, the social media sites?
They encourage you to post frequently,
But when you post? You are not saying much and that degrades the quality of your posting and people are less interested.
In order to overcome that?
What did people do?
They posted click bait.
They posted rage bait because people are never sick of being enraged.
People are very happy to be enraged by something and they will respond to a comment that enrages them.
This is why, on all the social media sites, you see so much rage bait.
This is why the social discourse has turned into one of rage bait.
That is one of the things that is at issue with posting in the public square.
You are tempted by the algorithm to post regularly, and then you post tripe and soon people don’t listen to you.
In order to get people to listen to you then you switch to rage bait.
And here we are.
However, it’s not the biggest issue.
The biggest issue in posting in the public square is this.
Men who know much more about what you are posting will see your posts.
Those men who know much more about what it is you are posting will judge you based on what it is that you say in the public square.
Because they are generally older than you, wiser than you, and much more knowledgeable in your subject than you are?
Their judgement counts, particularly if they decide to make a reply in the public square to your post.
For younger men trying to make it in whatever profession they’re trying to make it in, and I’ll stick to data warehousing and business intelligence, the data area.
Those young men who go out into the public and start posting stuff, make it very clear what it is they know and what it is they don’t know.
To the older men in their segment like me, no amount of tom foolery in your post is going to deceive a man like me in the data area.
Young men posting in the data area are faced with a difficult proposition.
That proposition is you want to make yourself look as knowledgeable as possible.
However, the older, more experienced men in your industry segment can see right through you when you say something, when you talk about something, that you don’t really know about.
This means you have to walk the tightrope of wanting to seem as intelligent as possible but know that there are men who are going to read your posts who will see through you overstating your capabilities.
Your problem is they might just do so.
I, for one, am doing so because I am sick and tired of ignorant young men tarring me with their ignorant brush.
This leaves you as a younger man in a very difficult position.
I would argue sadly so.
What is my advice to young men posting in the public trying to present themselves as marketable?
My advice to you would be this.
Be honest.
Don’t try and oversell yourself.
Don’t try and talk about things that you don’t know anything about.
Just be honest.
Sadly, honesty from young men posting in the public square today is, shall we say, lacking.
For young men posting in the public square, in the data space, my suggestion would be to be honest.
Talk about what you can do and talk about what you can’t do.
Why?
Because the men like me who are hiring managers who might hire you one day?
They will go and look at your statements in the public.
They will know much more about the subject you’re talking about than you.
If you are dishonest in those efforts?
Then, they won’t hire you.
That is how this works.
Not overselling yourself, not overstating yourself in the public square, is a better way of being successful in your chosen profession.
And with that?
I hope you found this blog post interesting and informative.
Thank you very much for your time and attention.
I really appreciate that.
Best Regards.
Esther.
Peters A I Assistant.
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