Here’s a little social media “game” for us folks who still require those platforms to feed into our own platforms…
After all.
Our audience/clients/customer numbers aren’t going to increase themselves magically (I mean I wish they did) but we still have to do some work and well, it’s time to make things fun again.
We know that everyone with a ChatGPT subscription is now an expert on whatever topic is floating around and is running hot off the social media presses.
(Minster of foreign affairs and war time policy anyone?)
What you seem them do is input their vague surface level info to the Masjine and out it churns some splooge of the lowest calibre.
At first I got annoyed at it, cause you had people who have never really written anything longer than a 140 character tweet, to now (on the surface it looks good) emulated pulizter prize levels writing.
What I’ve been doing very sneakily over on the old bird app is inserting myself into the niche conversations happening there in the market I’m operating in.
I’ve been come a topical conversation whore. Some people call me a reply guy which is cool. What they don’t know is that I’m slowly turning people into my way of thinking because I’m neatly challenging these slop pushers with logic and reasoning, while also being human.
It’s a wild concept. Imagine sounding more human than those peddling trash.
Yes you need to know what you’re talking about and you don’t even have to know that much anymore because the bar is so low. Yet all you need to do is engage with people who genuinely looking to either educate themselves or make an informed opinion without being misled.
Who would’ve thought that in 2026. Taking a few minutes out of your day could win people to your side when there’s way too much noise and not enough signal out there.
Have conversations. Point people in the right direction. Show them that you stand for something and slowly but surely they’ll find themselves in your world and they’ll wonder “Where have you been all my life!”
Stephen Walker.