Random 60: Stop complaining! | Favorite on Viddler.
In the world of social media everyone has a voice. If you only have 1 follower on Twitter (I’m cdevroe, btw) or the only friends you have on Facebook (I’m on there too) are your relatives – it doesn’t matter – you have a way to spread “your message” easier than ever. Why not make it a positive one?
It seems that people are spurred on to talk about the bad more than they are about the good. If your cable goes out, your car won’t start, or your cell phone loses coverage — you complain. This is understandable. I do it too. But all that does is spread that negativity. Lets stop spreading as much negativity and try to be positive now and then. Lets be real (don’t be fake-positive) but lets try to keep it balanced at the very least.
How? If you use Twitter or Facebook copy and paste this:
REPLACE THIS WITH A POSITIVE MSG – #r60 http://bit.ly/19r0Vm
Note: You do not have to do a video. A Twitter message, Facebook status, Flickr photo, or blog post will more than suffice.
If you have a blog, you can probably figure out how to tag your post with r60. We can watch the results on Twitter here.
16 Comments
You keep going over your 60 seconds….sheesh!
This topic is worth it babe.
Random 80 today!
Word up.
A while back a friend of mine who also follows me on Twitter was like, “I want to unfollow you: you’re always whining!”
I read through my Twitters, and he was right!
I try to make a more conscious effort now to be positive (I think it helps my mental outlook too, to focus on the positive 3 or 4 times a day (when I tweet)).
Nice Laura!
My spoon is too big!
That sounds like a complaint Brian!
My anus is bleeding! [1 - NSFW]
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Two things I like about this… you responded to a Random 60 with a 100 second video, and you didn’t mention the bear until the very end!
So true.. Colin. People complain about everything and each other. I went through my Facebook statuses and today’s really wasn’t a complaint. I am happy to go back to work. But my statuses are about 1/2 the times complaints. I hear complaints all day from the kids, customers and co-workers and it does bring you down.SO EVERYONE:BE HAPPY!!
Great job Mary keep it up!
That’s exactly what I found in car club forums. People only posted the complaints and issues, thus making it seem like there is always a problem with that vehicle. I think it’s a reflection of a bigger issue in our media. The nightly news has 90% doom and gloom and then a quick 10% positivity.
There is psychology that is all about the root of the problems and mulling them over and there is solution focused therapy that is about getting a positive result and moving on.
I’m glad your highlighting this. We could all use some perspective and smiles
I hope I don’t sound like I’m complaining about complaining
Well done! It’s easy to forget how good things around us really are. Great topic.
Not quite related to the topic, but you might want to change the initial screen so the “Random 60″ text is on the left side rather than the right, so it’s not covered by your custom logo.
The Viddler video commenting plugin still doesn’t let me login.
That’s an issue, not a complaint.
I constantly stay positive by saying “Giddy up!”
Here’s my video.
Excellent sentiment and a strongly needed reminder of how things can sound online.
As I read your post I wondered why this is true and decided that although the net gives us a good platform to express ourselves to the world it also takes away some of the personalization of expression.
We naturally want a platform to share our opinions about things. Negative opinions are often shared for at least partially positive reasons (ie. don’t buy that brand of device because they aren’t well made or isn’t that newscaster awful –faint hope that complaints might build up and lead to a new commentator). On the other hand, if one is happy one does not feel the same incentive to express that feeling or opinion.
We need to check ourselves and notice if we are trying so hard to make things better that we only talk about things that are wrong.
Thank for the post!