Social media tools were created for reasons such as interactions and having fun, but do we know that another important often skipped is connection building
These statistics show there is mass adoption of some social media platforms and hence the need for connection building in those various platforms.
What is connection building?
Connection building is an important aspect of human interaction, where we genuinely form bonds with not only our immediate environment, but the people associated with it.
It is very important to note connection building is helpful is structuring our lives for future growth.
Through social connections, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook was able to get over 1,200 students of Havard University to sign up for his project in just twenty four hours.
If we dig deeper, we realize that barely less than four years later, they already had about thirty million sign ups.
Building social connections involve stages like:
- Building the right connection.
- Sustaining the right connection.
Building the right social connection
What you do with your time right now, determines where you'll be tomorrow.
The greatest achievement a man can attain is to start building his connections early in life. Connections come even in friendship, making the right friends, can help reshape the next twenty years of an individual.
Steve Jobs started early and achieved early, Mark started early (at the age of twenty three) and was able to achieve so many remarkable things.
Someone once told me that the greatest thing that can ever happen to an individual is finding people with the same madness as you.
Finding the right people who will impact into your life is an essential thought the minute we start using any social media platform.
Sustaining the right connection
After getting the right connection through the social media tool, sustaining that becomes essential.
The right people who will impact in the life of an individual will not stay if they only see the wrong reasons around you.
For a person who is business inclined, tools like steemit and linkedin become essential for growth, because they are tailored to suit such needs.
A person who likes to be current about happenings in almost real time is advised to focus on twitter and probably here too.
The emphasis of sustaining the connection stems from the fact that acquiring the connection is only half the job.
