Selling Your Software Self On Social Media
Or rather, “How someone can easily judge you in just 2 lines of text.”
If you cast your eyes over a random person’s Twitter profile¹ you can get an instant insight into how that person wishes to define themselves to the outside word, or conversely see that they just doesn’t really care at all.
Obviously the more popular and in the public eye they are the more lackadaisical they can afford to be — either with nothing, single words, or something totally irrelevant as what they say doesn’t really matter.
Lesser well known individuals, of course, often choose to define themselves by their job, lifelong convictions, religion, sexual identity or preference, geographical location, or just with a series of emoji that I, at least, have to double check the meaning of before I even begin to process such things.
Actually I myself put two of them in my own Twitter profile, “Send 🍷 and 🧀”.
Us Gen-X people have still got it.
Then there are those that put an awful lot of effort into such short summaries in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe, who was said to craft every single word carefully and specifically to get the exact nuance of meaning that he wanted in his writing². A true artisan, not like the modern ones.
