Taylor Desseyn breaks down three ways to use social media for networking: posting content, engaging through likes and comments like you're having a conversation, and sliding into DMs. A quick roleplay with someone named Sam shows what that actually looks like.
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So there's 3 ways to use social media. One, to post content. The second part is liking and commenting on people's statuses, right? We're gonna do this example real quick. I'm gonna pick on Sam again. Sam. Hey man, my name's Taylor. What do you do? Data science. Nice. Where do you work? Stratify. Awesome. Cool. I appreciate it, man. It's nice to meet you. Guess what I just did? That is the equivalent of liking and commenting somebody's status. I mean, in my perspective, liking a comment is shaking hands. Commenting is the back and forth. You have to understand that behaviors are changing. And so the way to engage people online now is liking and commenting on people's statuses, right? The third way is the DMs.