{"id":1468,"date":"2011-06-26T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2011-06-26T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T09:20:14","slug":"social-media-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/26\/social-media-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Be a Social Media Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Presidential Address regarding withdrawals from Afghanistan spawned loads of reactions on Twitter. One of them was from a boy who seemed to be from the Christian-right side of the political spectrum, which simply called for Obama stepping down. I notice it, probably because I didn&#8217;t like the attitude, but when I clicked it I saw that there were others that didn&#8217;t like the comment too. However the top-reply is from a (probably self-proclaimed) &#8216;social media expert&#8217; (it says &#8220;Fuck you bitch&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/socialmediaexpert.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/socialmediaexpert.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/socialmediaexpert.png 949w, https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/socialmediaexpert-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I get that this is the internet, where trolling, cursing, insults and threats are far from uncommon&#8230; I was surprised to find out that the first insult came from someone who describes himself as a &#8220;Social media expert, your spokesperson, and lover of humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>May the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> have mercy on the poor soul that hires this person to manage their social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Presidential Address regarding withdrawals from Afghanistan spawned loads of reactions on Twitter. One of them was from a boy who seemed to be from the Christian-right side of the political spectrum, which simply called for Obama stepping down. I notice it, probably because I didn&#8217;t like the attitude, but when I clicked it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,15],"tags":[1018,673,860,1017,257],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-rants","tag-fail","tag-obama","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-expert","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}