Are You Blending In?

 My kids (8 and 9 yrs old respectively) like watching The Military Channel over cartoons these days.  They are soaking up a ton of knowledge about military strategy, guns, vehicles, and tons of other things that I have no idea about.   One of those things would be ghillie suits.  Ghillie suits did not exist in my world until a few weeks ago, when Grandma (after listening to the kids raving about them) found a place on the internet that sold kid size guille suits.  (Isn't the internet grand?)  The boys couldn't wait to play with them as soon as the suits arrived in the mail.

Friends and family crack up everytime we share this picture:

 

They aren't doing a very good job of blending in.  So the next logical step:

Let's move out to the yard!

It's better, but there's still some glaringly obvious things giving them away.  They aren't going to do well in their "sniping" unless they change their tactics, and try a bit harder to blend in.

The boys and their ghillie suits made me think about people who are trying to use social media and aren't seeing the results that they want.  I wonder if those people spent time watching and listening to get the lay of the land before they jumped in.  Did they watch people who were successful?  Did they take notes on the right way to approach people and start conversations?  How well were they truly blending in?

Or were they sitting in the middle of the yard with neon colored guns talking about themselves (and thus giving themselves away)?

Using social media correctly is powerful, but I always recommend getting to know one platform really well before you jump to others.  What works on one isn't going to necessarily work on another.  You could be doing 95% of things right, but it's the small details that will give you away.

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