From the moment you start blogging, you get this idea in your head. “If I could just get so and so to retweet this post, I’d have it made.” This idea comes in large part from the blogosphere itself. There are posts on how to get the attention of “A-Listers.” There are posts on how to blog better than the superkids. There are posts on how to get as big as the a-listers, too. So when I tell you that you actually don’t need to start out by courting the most influential people in the world of Social Media, you might think that I’ve really lost that last burger that made my brain a complete happy meal.
Au contraire.
There are 7 risks I can think of tied to trying to get the attention of the “A-Lister” crowd – however you may define that.
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I’ve been taking some time lately to scan even more carefully profiles of new people I’m following. I’m seeing people do a lot of things that in my experience will not really make Twitter seem fun or even all that interactive. I thought I would pinpoint some of those items here as food for thought.
I was in, I’d say, about third grade. I was sitting in my Social Studies class and we were looking at two different accounts of the same battle. The accounts were completely different, and yet both men had been at the battle.
My friend Karima-Catherine (@karimacatherine) sent me a link to an article yesterday from the Wall Street Journal. It was another article about 
People in the online world often talk about engagement as a light, fluffy, kumbaya sort of thing. But let’s face facts here. Sometimes, interactions with people are not fun. Sometimes we disagree with each other. Sometimes someone says something that really throws you for a loop. Sometimes someone disappoints you, misunderstands you, or lets you down. It’s hard online to figure out how to deal with these situations. Do you defend yourself against every perceived offense? Do you ignore every scenario where your feelings get hurt?