 Hi, I'm Mitch Mitchell. So today I want to ask you are you getting what you're looking for out of social media? And that sounds like a strange question, but it's been an interesting year because From both a marketing perspective and a personal perspective I've been reading a lot of different things and seeing how some people are like pulling away in some ways because they think social media is kind of beating them up mentally and Marketers are trying to figure out how they can you know keep promoting their own thing or themselves While it looks like social media wants to have it both ways first They let you pretty much hey, you know come join us and do what you want to then they start putting Limits on it then they start kind of beating you down then they say however you can pay us for it Maybe we'll help you and it's a maybe it's not even a definite So it's been an interesting year and I thought I would kind of give my little perspective on this because I Have gone kind of back and forth on it now. I love social media. I love watching the videos on YouTube I love my interactions on Twitter. I Like going on Facebook for a couple of things here and there I don't spend a lot of time on Google Plus I'll admit and LinkedIn started out last year or this year still 2015 It started out great and then it just kind of petered out. There's been a lot of changes I mean LinkedIn changed a lot of things Google Plus has just changed a lot of things Twitter has taken away the Twitter accounts so that we can't tell anymore who's sharing our stuff on Twitter It's it's just wild Facebook is always changing so that's not really a surprise there and I have found that there are times where I Feel mentally burned out now some of that is because I write a lot I have five blogs I Actually have already done the totals here. I wrote close to 350 articles this year Across across all my blogs across blogs of other people. I was in a couple of regular magazines this year I wrote a book. I finished writing a book But most of it was a lot of rewriting and I did it this year. So I had to do that My goodness, I did what 70 videos almost 70 videos I have done a lot and I've done a lot of interviews For other people not just my own interviews, but you know for other people who wanted to Interview me. I don't know why people actually I do I'm looking to try to get more people to want to interview me But sometimes it comes out of left field I'm like, okay, why do they want to talk to me? But you know what? I'll talk to anybody. I'm friendly like that So, you know, I have that then I noticed that Facebook The people who I used to see a lot of things from it looks like that's dwindling And I'm not sure if that's because of the people or because Facebook has done something But I'm not seeing close to the kind of stuff from the people I'm connected to that I was seeing before and I'm seeing a lot more from people who I don't talk to all that often and It just makes you wonder. Okay, is Facebook playing me? Are they doing something to me? I don't know Google plus's change has really kind of irked me a little bit because it looks pretty But they've taken things away that you have to go back in and find a way to Put it back. For instance, they initially took away circles It was just a default in their programming They took it away and I had to go do some research to find out how to turn that back on so I could put People back in the circles that was irritating LinkedIn and the groups, you know, LinkedIn used to have this thing where if you participated in a group a lot You got to be you know known as kind of authority or something like that Well, they totally took that away and now there's no real reason to Comment on anything and most of the people only post links anyway without adding anything to the link that they're posting So you don't even know what their thought is. They're just putting up the link and saying, you know Go read this which is something I've never done So that's irritating. So I've been irritated more than Impressed with a lot of what I'm seeing in social media and blogs. Oh, this was an interesting year for blogs And you know, I always go and I comment on blogs, but this year for the first time I participated in a blog carnival kind of thing and it failed miserably because it turns out Overwhelming majority of people who write blogs don't know anything about how to comment on other blogs People you don't just write great posts on a blog No one cares if you're me you're gonna delete it because you just wasted my time and having to read that and you're gonna waste anyone else's time so it's been a really weird social media year and Probably the most enjoyment I've gotten outside of Twitter has been YouTube I have found some people that I've loved to watch this year and I've added a bunch more to it and I really love I can't even think of the channel, but you can watch movie reviews. I mean not movie reviews What do you call those? trailers movie trailers and that's been Fascinating I have seen some things that I said, oh really I want to go see that and I've seen some things where I said, okay That's kind of pretty. I'm never gonna watch that. I don't I don't pay for dramas. I'm just not gonna do it But you know, I'm fascinated by some of the things that are coming out soon Obviously This week the Star Wars comes out, but I've seen the trailer for Star Trek's next movie which you know, it's still Star Trek, but I'm a little leery about that one I've seen the one for Captain America. That's a definite go. I saw the one for Independence Day. Are you kidding? That's a definite go And there's the one about the life of pets Even if it's animated, I'm sorry I'm gonna have to wait till someone else basically says it's the best thing they ever saw for me to even think about going to watch that I don't know. I'm just not not attracted to it, but I love that kind of thing I love this guy Dane drops where you get to go and watch his food videos and that's just he's just funny as sin I've really enjoyed watching Philip DeFranco this year. I've had a good time with that Andre of Black Nerd comedy and Katie Wilson, you know, they're buds and I've enjoyed that a lot discovered Rosanna Pacino, I think it is who who does the food she actually makes the food and oh my god the epic food guys I've watched some of that stuff salivated and got sick at the same time because there's no way I could ever eat all that stuff That would just be wild So like I said, I've had an interesting year as far as social media goes my love hate for it, you know depending on how The day has swung so I put it out to you guys. Are you getting everything you want out of social media? How do you feel about it? Just you know, let me know your thoughts and That's pretty much all I have today. So like I said, I'm Mitch Mitchell. I hope y'all take care