"HAVE BLOGGERS BECOME SOCIAL MEDIA ABUSERS?" Excerpts from this terrific and insightful post from Monika at THE WRITER'S MANIFESTO (click here to get right to her fantastic blog!) : "Do You Join Social Media Sites for their Traffic Potential? Primarily social media is about connecting with others and not to self promote your content. I’m not saying your shouldn’t submit any of your posts ever to social media, but rather keep the self promotion to an absolute minimum. Wikipedia says: Social Media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people, and peers. So how come we seem to think that social media is primarily here to serve our needs to attract a boat load of traffic? ... what I have learned so far is encouraging me further to keep following this new found path. Social Media is about: * gi...