{"id":781,"date":"2021-11-26T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:24:26","slug":"the-other-perspective-social-media-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-other-perspective-social-media-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The other perspective &#8211; Social Media &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you realized below points when you don&#8217;t find people interested in your social media posts and activities? Its not always lack of interest or dislike that causes someone to be un-interested in your posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Is your post showing up on their activity feed or wall?<\/li><li>Are your interests and likes similar?<\/li><li>Does the other person have time for social media?<\/li><li>Is the other person active on social media? Is s\/he searching for things completely different from you?<\/li><li>All social media runs on algorithms, optimizations and matching &#8211; is the algorithm correctly able to decipher where your &amp; other person&#8217;s interests are?<\/li><li>Many people have profiles which are not exactly what they really are &#8211; either for interest of their privacy or other reasons causing more mis-match to happen<\/li><li>We get to see more and more of what we tend to like and follow, post and so on which may not be exactly in agreement with your network<\/li><li>Mathematically the permutations &amp; combinations for even a network of 1,000 people connected to one person with 10s of likes and posts \/ activities per person builds such a vast set of events which is not humanely possible to track for one person<\/li><li>Probability of we seeing something that other person in our network wants us to see is very low<\/li><li>Before we judge why people have not been in touch with us, do realize some of the points above. Larger your social network in terms of physical world &amp; virtual world &#8211; lower the chances of you observing activities, posts, likes and more from individuals in your network that they want you to see unless the matching algorithms are intuitive<\/li><li>These are some of the reasons why we keep seeing warnings about why we should not be judgemental about things on social media<\/li><li>Email me: Neil@HarwaniSystems.in<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you realized below points when you don&#8217;t find people interested in your social media posts and activities? Its not always lack of interest or dislike that causes someone to be un-interested in your posts. Is your post showing up on their activity feed or wall? Are your interests and likes similar? Does the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-other-perspective-social-media-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The other perspective &#8211; Social Media &#8211; Part 1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-social-media","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7do02-cB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1421,"url":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/partyrock-aws-apps-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":781,"position":0},"title":"PartyRock.aws apps &#8211; Part 1","author":"Neil Harwani","date":"February 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a list of my experimentation with PartyRock@AWS since last 2 days. 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