What's your online pet peeve?

My online pet peeves are folks in forums who only talk about themselves and their asks and don't start "conversations" about things that can help us all. 

There should be a wide variety information discussed not just commercials.  Otherwise, I could sit in front of my TV and listen to commercials that could help ME! 

This is a great question about online peeves!  I would like to see this forum concentrate more on how can we make this MCC more useful for everyone on it?

I think we have a great cache of participants.  How can we leverage all of our knowledge, connections and passions to make a difference in this economy? 

This is my 2 cents plus some for inflation.  Thank you Jeremiah. 

My online peeve is what I call Internet Voyeurs. In a place like this or linkedin, etc ... they put up just the minimum on their profile to get things started, and they then start contacting you or acting like they are your best bud when they meet you: "Oh, you went to college at ..." "You once did ..."

Beverly said: "How can we make this MCC more useful for everyone on it?... How can we leverage all
of our knowledge, connections and passions to make a difference in this
economy?"

Great question, Beverly!

I imagine there will be variances among MCC members in the definition of "useful." I'd love to see everyone share their core strengths as individuals - not just the "marketing puke," as Jeremiah so aptly stated. There are people in this group who have amazing life stories and talents outside of the business arena, but that information is not posted here. I believe we gain strength - individually and as a group - by investing time in getting to know each other by who we are, not just what we "do." 

My pet peeve? I've got a list.

• People who are afraid of the internet


• People who don't check their email
  


• People who flick cigarette butts out the window


• Web sites that require a plug-in or upgrade


• Building web apps from scratch


• Spam


• Bad design


• Ugly design


• NASCAR design


• Long posts

Great stuff, most of which I totally agree with.  I am a giver, can't wait to read the new book, "The Go-giver".  When I meet someone, I give my time and am working on being "fully present".  It's difficult in a room full of people and distractions, a little adult ADD going on here.  In this forum we have an amazing opportunity to share, to give our "connections", without distraction.  We ALL have contacts all over the place, that's why most of us became members.  Let's start by giving at least one referral to everyone that "connects" with us. Get creative, refer someone that is not already a MCC member.  Let me know how I can help you grow your business, project, etc...

My biggest pet peeve is being introduced to someone either in person or online and then magically you start getting their spam-like emails. I appreciate it when people ask if they can add me to their mailing list but it seems like lately I just start getting these emails after meeting them once.

In response to David Parker's 3-24 post...

David, you wrote that with 500+ members you don't look if someone doesn't post a photo in their profile. I can understand using photos as a filtering method on an online dating website. Can you explain why a profile photo is important in an online business networking forum?

I waited a couple days to chime in as I didn't want to answer-jack David...

I do know from the perspective of doing business online, having a picture of who you are doing business with (the team, the owners, etc) helps greatly in building trust in e-commerce transactions and design... I think maybe David is a symptom of that :-)

Photos help make us real. It's hard to build a relationship with words on a screen. A complete profile with photo says "I'm putting myself out here. Jump in. The water is fine."

I didn't get in a quick response to Dave's question about requiring a photo to play.  

My reasoning for a photo follows the thoughts way  would rate MCC as an offline - online networking place as 1000+ times more valuable than LinkedIn as an impersonal offline site.  It enhances the human element, the real element that MCC affords.  If I never meet the person at a get together, I want to at least put a face to the name.  If I see a photo it adds to the relatedness.

Just as importantly, it also shows the person actually put something in before asking to take.  If someone wants MCC members to open up their treasure troves, at least go get a photo shot by a professional and figure out how to upload it on the site. 

Posting a pic states ones confidence level.  We all want to work with someone that is confident in who they are and their ability to make things happen, whatever field they are in.  (Without going overboard, of course.) 

Ok this is my first effort at participation by commenting and not just information posting.  So here it goes.

My pet peeve is the anonymity and facelessness of this type of communications.  I like to see people's eyes twinkle and face's smile when I say something good.  And more often than not I prefer seeing their eyes roll when I say something dumb.

To combat this I copy as many of the pictures I can find into my computer and link them to my outlook.  This way I try to picture them talking directly to me.

Additionally, I attempt to meet as many members as possible.  I have found that creating business relationships does not give the same long term relationship as a joint business / social relationship.