LinkedIn: Social Networking Secret
Here is a tip about LinkedIn and social networking that could save you a lot of pain. I write this because of a recent incident I was able to observe.
The tip is simply this: Never respond to a personal attack.
If you participate in the question and answer forum or the group discussions long enough you will eventually have someone that disagrees with you go beyond normal debate and start to attack you.
The smart thing to do in this instance is to not respond in any way to the personal attacks. By responding you will make the discussion bigger and possibly nastier. This is not the way you want to display yourself in the public forums.
You may even find within the personal attack some factual items re the content of the discussions to which you disagree, but don’t respond to those either. Any response you make is an incentive or opportunity for your attacker to respond and make the discussion worse.
If you should ever get in such a situation where you have made some posts in response to a negative post or personal attack, I suggest that as soon as you realize the conversation is going down hill that you simply delete and withdraw all of your comments and responses in that line.
In my opinion this is the only way to handle this situation on LinkedIn or in any other public forum. You’ll find that most of the other options work similarly to pouring gas on a fire.
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