Haters, Trolls and Negativity Online

Welcome to show 53 in the Question and Answer edition of the Street Smart Wealth, Profit in Your PJs Podcast

One challenging thing about putting yourself out there online, in social media and actively building a business is that you are then opened up to all forms of scrutiny, negativity, bashing and more, by haters, trolls and negative people. In today’s show, we are going to chat about how to handle this.

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Today’s Network Marketing question is….

I just had a conversation this week with one of my clients in the SocialMediaBackStagePass.com coaching program and she was quite upset after getting her first mean, negative comment on one of her blog posts. She wondered if she should turn off her blog comments and what she could do to prevent this.

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As I am recording this, I just got an email from someone today who just sent an “F U” – as his comment as he unsubscribed from my emails. Although he totally wrote it out. Yep, dropped the “F-Bomb.” Some dude, to a harmless female, like me, someone he has never met and never had a conversation with.

Thanks to Gmail, I know who HE is, though, in all of his misery!

I attended my company convention recently where dozens of people came up to me and thanked me for my podcasts, and shared how much value they got from them, and then I came home and had one email complaining about an ebook that didn’t contain the “nuts and bolts” of what this person was looking for.

After spending time stewing over that, I laughed and said to my husband – I am letting one comment over ride the dozens of other positive feedback I have received, why am I doing this?

Well, it’s human nature – we want to be liked….by everyone. And, we don’t understand it when they don’t.

I have a high school friend, who recently posted on Facebook, hurt by an ignored friend request.

Social Media Examiner – recently had a huge “hate fest” over something from their recent Social Media Marketing World 2014 Event.

The Huffington Post has shared challenges they experience.

There are:

Blog and Facebook comments

Hate mail

Private messages

Less than 1/2 of 1% of all that comes in, and yet it is human nature to focus there.

Here is what I have learned –

There are some unhappy People out there. IT’s not me; or you – it’s them, and who knows why?

There are Trolls out there, and you can never win with them. Steer clear!

Those with legitimate feedback – reach out to those and see how you can reach parity.

Above all, never feed the trolls.

Sadly, some people are truly hateful and unhappy, and the way they choose to deal with it is to vent it out on others. Maybe it makes them feel like big shots; I don’t know.

Learn to let it roll right off of you. No matter what – your real friends are your friends; your family still loves you, and you know that you are doing something to spread light and positivity into the world.

Don’t let the trolls and haters get you down.

Good luck in your business

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