PR Daily's David Spark posted an article listing the top 13 annoying communication habits that must end in 2012. I'm sure most of us can agree that as public relations majors we wouldn't dare commit any of these grave communication faux pas, right? Well, not necessarily. Although most of the annoying habits on the list came as no surprise to me because they are among my biggest social media pet peeves, I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm guilty of a whopping three out of these 13 communication transgressions. Here's the condensed version of the list: 1. Shortening someone's name right after you've been introduced
2. Not remembering someone's name right after you've been introduced
3. Tagging objects as people in Facebook photos
4. Tagging people in a Facebook article to get them to read it
5. Opening a panel discussion by allowing the panelists to first talk about themselves
6. Asking a blogger, "Can you blog something for me?"
7. Stringing people along
8. Attaching videos and uncompressed photos to emails
9. Not understanding what Bcc is
10. Sharing without consumption
11. Cross posting all tweets to Facebook
12. Wishing "happy birthday" on Facebook
13. Facebook pages that require you to hit the "Like" button just to see the content on the page
The bulk of the list seems to be common sense. A few habits on the list, namely tagging people in a Facebook article to get them to read about it and not understanding what Bcc is, have been imposed on me countless times by friends, colleagues and employers who should know better. I'm sure this sounds familiar. Other annoying communication habits on the list occur alarmingly often also, such as not remembering someone's name right after you've been introduced and wishing someone "happy birthday" on Facebook, which are two of the habits I'm guilty of committing. The article suggests repeating someone's name several times after you've been introduced to help with memorization and accompanying "happy birthday" wishes on Facebook with a personalized message.
2. Not remembering someone's name right after you've been introduced
3. Tagging objects as people in Facebook photos
4. Tagging people in a Facebook article to get them to read it
5. Opening a panel discussion by allowing the panelists to first talk about themselves
6. Asking a blogger, "Can you blog something for me?"
7. Stringing people along
8. Attaching videos and uncompressed photos to emails
9. Not understanding what Bcc is
10. Sharing without consumption
11. Cross posting all tweets to Facebook
12. Wishing "happy birthday" on Facebook
13. Facebook pages that require you to hit the "Like" button just to see the content on the page
The bulk of the list seems to be common sense. A few habits on the list, namely tagging people in a Facebook article to get them to read about it and not understanding what Bcc is, have been imposed on me countless times by friends, colleagues and employers who should know better. I'm sure this sounds familiar. Other annoying communication habits on the list occur alarmingly often also, such as not remembering someone's name right after you've been introduced and wishing someone "happy birthday" on Facebook, which are two of the habits I'm guilty of committing. The article suggests repeating someone's name several times after you've been introduced to help with memorization and accompanying "happy birthday" wishes on Facebook with a personalized message.
Hopefully I'm not the only public relations major guilty of one or more of PR Daily's 13 annoying communication habits that must end in 2012. I encourage everyone to check out the article. It is a very informative, quick, comical read.
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