Fandom Snowflake 2019 #4: Say Hello
Jan. 4th, 2019 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptComment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them.
Which has some extra-good timing, given that we're only a couple weeks out from Tumblr and Facebook making decisions that make good business sense (the people providing the money are more important than the people providing the content) even if they are the sorts of things that destroy a community and often remove the thing that was so appealing to the people who provide the money.
Without content, platforms are pretty useless. Without users, social-media sites have less reach. And it's difficult to find a place that is firmly committed to letting you be the person that you are, in all your aspects, fully, to explore the things that you are interested in to the fullest extent the law allows. Because that kind of place has to refuse advertisers and hope that it can get enough members to keep the site operating. Dreamwidth is managing it so far, even if it means it's not the most up-to-trendy kind of site.
So, given that it's about saying hello to new people (and older ones, too), here's what I'm proposing: In a lot of professional development circles, there's usually a conference service called "resume review" or "interview prep". The idea is to help people who are looking for new connections to get practice and advice on how to arrange their documents and cover letters so that people looking to hire them will put them past the first few screenings, and to give them practice in a low-stress environment at answering the kinds of questions that interviewing committees will want to know about them, to see if they have the skills and temperament to do well at the job, and to see if they're interested enough in working at the company to hire them.
I'm proposing that for this post, I want to do reviews / prep to someone's introduction posts or their "Hi, I'm appearing in your comments for the first time, here's a little about me so that you know we are going to squee about the same things" comments. Or other introductory forms that someone might want to use in their communities around. Because sometimes what we would like is another pair (or several) of eyes on our works to help make sure that the thing contains everything we want to say and that it's appealing and attractive to others that might be browsing.
So, it's not a friending thing, per se, because there's no form to fill out. But if people make friends with each other and get new connections, I'm going to grin and say "Hee. My ulterior purpose has been achieved. Go me."
Which has some extra-good timing, given that we're only a couple weeks out from Tumblr and Facebook making decisions that make good business sense (the people providing the money are more important than the people providing the content) even if they are the sorts of things that destroy a community and often remove the thing that was so appealing to the people who provide the money.
Without content, platforms are pretty useless. Without users, social-media sites have less reach. And it's difficult to find a place that is firmly committed to letting you be the person that you are, in all your aspects, fully, to explore the things that you are interested in to the fullest extent the law allows. Because that kind of place has to refuse advertisers and hope that it can get enough members to keep the site operating. Dreamwidth is managing it so far, even if it means it's not the most up-to-trendy kind of site.
So, given that it's about saying hello to new people (and older ones, too), here's what I'm proposing: In a lot of professional development circles, there's usually a conference service called "resume review" or "interview prep". The idea is to help people who are looking for new connections to get practice and advice on how to arrange their documents and cover letters so that people looking to hire them will put them past the first few screenings, and to give them practice in a low-stress environment at answering the kinds of questions that interviewing committees will want to know about them, to see if they have the skills and temperament to do well at the job, and to see if they're interested enough in working at the company to hire them.
I'm proposing that for this post, I want to do reviews / prep to someone's introduction posts or their "Hi, I'm appearing in your comments for the first time, here's a little about me so that you know we are going to squee about the same things" comments. Or other introductory forms that someone might want to use in their communities around. Because sometimes what we would like is another pair (or several) of eyes on our works to help make sure that the thing contains everything we want to say and that it's appealing and attractive to others that might be browsing.
So, it's not a friending thing, per se, because there's no form to fill out. But if people make friends with each other and get new connections, I'm going to grin and say "Hee. My ulterior purpose has been achieved. Go me."
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