Comments on: How do you learn social media social norms? http://prconnections.net/how-do-you-learn-social-media-social-norms/ Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:33:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jesse Charles http://prconnections.net/how-do-you-learn-social-media-social-norms/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 Jesse Charles Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:32:04 +0000 http://prconnections.net/?p=430#comment-1022 This is a good question. In social media consulting I've done, the biggest detriment to the uninitiated as far as starting to use socmed resources is that they don't know what is acceptable or expected of them. I think in all types of social learning, immersion is the truest education. It's true that you can read guides and other people experiences, but you don't really learn until you jump in and start. I think that older people especially have a problem with this kind of participatory learning compared to younger generations. I believe this is representative of relative "non-serious" perception of the internet by people who have grown up with it. As far as the establishment of norms, I guess we have to blame the innovator adoption group to some extent, but the early adopter group to a larger extent. Although, I have seen claims that the bulk of real normative behaviour doesn't take off until a medium is more thoroughly populated. This is a good question. In social media consulting I’ve done, the biggest detriment to the uninitiated as far as starting to use socmed resources is that they don’t know what is acceptable or expected of them.

I think in all types of social learning, immersion is the truest education. It’s true that you can read guides and other people experiences, but you don’t really learn until you jump in and start. I think that older people especially have a problem with this kind of participatory learning compared to younger generations. I believe this is representative of relative “non-serious” perception of the internet by people who have grown up with it.

As far as the establishment of norms, I guess we have to blame the innovator adoption group to some extent, but the early adopter group to a larger extent. Although, I have seen claims that the bulk of real normative behaviour doesn’t take off until a medium is more thoroughly populated.

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