Socia Media & Vulnerability

For the last several years, I have been fascinated with the overall reach of social media. The fact that you can put something out there for the world to see, and that people will spend their most valuable asset, their time, in order to read or watch it, is still unbelievable to me. Another interesting thing to me is the consumer to creator ratio. I read a post from someone on LinkedIn today who talked about the 80 19 1 rule.

80% of people are solely consumers. They consume and never engage.

19% of people are interactors, they engage with the conversation, may like or comment, but do not create.

1% of people are the actual creators. They think through something or want to show the world something, and are vulnerable enough to put themselves out there.

If nothing else, I think that social media/blogging/anything else that involves publishing or posting something to the world is worth it because it not only creates vulnerability in the moment, but fosters it as a habit.

And if we as a population can become vulnerable, we can start to have more real, candid conversations.