I posted a logo contest on Facebook this past Friday for Lady Soleil. Almost half of the feedback was negative. In total, 80 plus comments were delivered, some friends just giving love, many friends criticizing the logos. Here are the… Read More »You Spoke, I Listened
It’s what top bloggers and community managers say when they interpret criticism to be nasty and inappropriate.
In the case of trolls that deliver aggressive comments that border on threats or worse, you have to agree with them. This post is about the haters, the ones that deliver criticism in harsh ways that irks the recipient, but doesn’t necessarily equate to trolldom.
Brands and bloggers alike need to listen to harsh critics. Sometimes these people are right in spite of their methods.
Forrester recently updated its Technographics profiles (made famous in the book Groundswell) for global social media consumption, surveying 95,000 consumers across 18 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. One primary finding was the lack of commenting occurring in mature western markets, including the United States.
Adoption is pretty much complete in the U.S. (86%) and globally. Almost everyone who is online also is using or has used social media. Comscore recently corroborated this data, saying 83% of the world’s online population participates in social media.
But, most of us in the United States are not social and care not to converse. The Forrester report finds that 2/3 of the US adult social media population doesn’t comment. This is notable.
Commenting seems to have decreased over the past six years. Perhaps it’s because of the widespread proliferation of mobile media with smaller screens and touch input. It’s certainly harder to type in a blog comment or critique a product on a smartphone.
