Haters and Negativity Online

Hi, it’s Jackie Ulmer and welcome to show 53 in the Q and A edition of the Street Smart Wealth, Profit in Your PJs Podcast

Show notes can be found at JackieUlmer.com/QA053

One challenging thing about putting yourself out there online, in social media and actively building a business is that you are then opened up to all forms of scrutiny, negativity, bashing and more, by haters, trolls and negative people. In today’s show, we are going to chat about how to handle this.

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I just had a conversation this week with one of my clients in the SocialMediaBackStagePass.com coaching program and she was quite upset after getting her first mean, negative comment on one of her blog posts. She wondered if she should turn off her blog comments and what she could do to prevent this.

ANSWER

As I am recording this, I just got an email from someone today who just sent - F U - as his comment as he unsubscribed from my emails. Yep, dropped the "F-Bomb" on me! A guy, to a female he has never met, or even had a conversation with.

I attended my company convention recently where dozens of people came up to me and thanked me for my podcasts, and shared how much value they got from them, and then I had one email complaining about an ebook that didn’t contain the “nuts and bolts” of what this person was looking for.

After spending time stewing over that, I laughed and said to my husband - I am letting one comment over ride the dozens of other positive feedback I have received, why am I doing this?

Well, it’s human nature - we want to be liked….by everyone. And, we don’t understand it when they don’t.

My high school friend, hurt by an ignored friend request.

Social Media Examiner just experienced this.

As did the Huffington Post

Blog and Facebook comments

Hate mail

Less than 1/2 of 1% of all that comes in, and yet it is human nature to focus there.

Here is what I have learned -

Unhappy People

Trolls

Those with legitimate feedback.

Above all, never feed the trolls.

Sadly, some people are truly hateful and unhappy, and the way they choose to deal with it is to vent it out on others. Maybe it makes them feel like big shots; I don’t know.

Learn to let it roll right off of you. No matter what - your real friends are your friends; your family still loves you, and you know that you are doing something to spread light and positivity into the world.

Don’t let the trolls and haters get you down.

Show notes - JackieUlmer.com/QA053

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