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It’s nearly 2014 and I reckon each of us is having a hard time believing that the days of hoarding canned goods and gallons of water for Y2K are 14 years passed. A lot has happened in the last 14 years. The world battled and survived SARS, bird and swine flu epidemics. America saw its first African American president elected and reelected. Smart devices overtook the mobile market at breakneck speeds, and social media went from a foreign and novel concept to the primary means by which people around the world connect. As a company that specializes in this form of digital communication, we bear both knowledge and a burden and feel that in 2014 it is our duty to inform the masses of what we believe to be quintessential social media faux-pas. Each of us here at Everywhere wants to share with you our most desired social media New Year’s resolutions to stick to in 2014. But not to worry, they’re all things we’re working on too!

Danica Kombol

Pet Peeve #1: New-Baby-Info-Overload Syndrome. We love babies, really we do. But do we have to hear when they first pooped on the potty or had a little tinkle?

Resolve to: Keep a few more of those intimate moments to ourselves.

Pet Peeve #2: Unknown Linkers. If anyone knows me, they know I love to connect with people. But, when it comes to LinkedIn, it’s still strange when I receive requests to link to someone I’ve never met or even heard of.

Resolve to: Make an introduction through a mutual contact. No more ‘cold linking’.

Kelly Heisler

Pet Peeve #1: Foodie Photogs. I don’t care what you ate today. All it does is make me realize I’m not eating it. What do you want, a pat on the back for eating? Harsh? Maybe. True? Sadly.

Resolve to: Keep breakfast, lunch and dinner where they belong…in your stomach.

Pet Peeve #2: The Mushy Oversharer. When people in a relationship use their Facebook walls as their main form of communication.

Resolve to: Use the message feature, that’s what it’s there for.

Lindsay Price

Pet Peeve #1: The Over-Enthusiast. No one is concerned with your “FiRst CoMMenT!!” comment on Mindy Kaling’s adorable picture.

Resolve to: Never make posts about which place your comment is in on Instagram photos…or any other photos for that matter.

Pet Peeve #2: The False Friend. Your automated Twitter DMs are counterproductive. I don’t feel thanked, I immediately begin to regret following you.

Resolve to: Share a tweet of mine that you find interesting. Don’t generically thank me for following you.

Lexi Severini

Pet Peeve #1: The Deja Vu Instagrammer. Didn’t we just see that picture? Oh, it has a different filter on it. Instagramming the same picture with slight variations doesn’t gain you any new followers. In fact, often times my finger will unfollow you before my brain has a chance to catch up.

Resolve to: Find the shot you like and post it once…and only once.

Pet Peeve #2: The In-Opportunist. Tweeting without hashtags or handles is the quickest way to dodge any potential attention you could otherwise have received from that witty or thoughtful tweet.

Resolve to: Use hashtags and handles. You worked to create that tweet. Now let it work for you a bit.

Molly Daly

Pet Peeve #1: The Digital Debater. Curb debates! Tired of arguing (or watching other people argue) when you should be enjoying your time on social media?

Resolve to: Unfollow if necessary. Simply unfollow a post after leaving your comment, or unfollow the friend who posted the controversy altogether. If there’s too much on your feed to handle, you can always install Unbaby.me and put it to good use.

Pet Peeve #2: The Build Em & Forget Em. So you signed up for Pinterest, but have you touched it since? You created a blog… but the only post is from 2011.

Resolve to: Log in to your social media accounts and see if they’re worth keeping. If someone’s googling you, it’s not a good look for your last post to be years old. Chances are, older posts aren’t a current representation of “you,” anyway.

It’s a new year, which means new beginnings. Let’s all resolve to make ourselves more efficient, more appreciated and more thoughtful social media users. Here here to a fresh and new year!

by: Danica Kombol

New Year’s Social Media Resolutions

On Christmas Eve, as we were decorating our tree, my kids moaned, “No more Instagramming.” Both my 20-year-old daughter and I were more fixated on creating artsy Instagram pics than we were adorning our tree. The next morning, my other daughter laid down the law, “No social media until after breakfast.” My husband piped in, “How about no social media all day.” I managed to make it through the day with only one brief visit to my Facebook page. If your teenage and twenty-something kids are begging you to lay off the social media sauce, it may be time for a few social media resolutions. Here are my 6 social media resolutions for 2013:

1. Social Media Diet: Put yourself on a social media diet. Three solid social media meals every day. By that I mean, check into your platforms three times a day – and no snacking in between. Pinterest (which in my house is like crack cocaine) is reserved for dessert.

2. Be in the moment: Recognize that not every moment is a social media moment. Special times with family, like decorating the tree, should be experienced in real time and the Instagram and Facebook photos kept out of the picture.

3. Be respectful: I’m pretty slap happy about posting pictures on Facebook but I always ask first. Randi Zuckerberg was rightly outraged when one of her friends tweeted out a private family holiday moment she had shared on Facebook. Ask before sharing – different people have different attitudes about what is public and private.

4. Set a goal: If you are using social media for business, set some goals. Create a clearly outlined goal for what you want to achieve through the use of social media and measure against those goals. Hint: Increasing your Facebook “likes” is not a goal. Building leads or building positive PR buzz is.

5. Spend Wisely: Yes social media is free, but think before you spend your tweets. Mindless content just to fill up your feed ends up annoying your followers and will never get you to a goal of building a community.

6. Be a good friend: Social media really is first and foremost about relationship building. It’s about sharing and being part of a community. Nobody likes a friend who is all about ME-ME-ME. Think sharing and building an alliance.

So let’s make a toast instead of a Tweet to our 2013 Social Media Resolutions Diet!

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