{"id":229,"date":"2011-06-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-06-28T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T18:49:10","slug":"passive-aggressive-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/passive-aggressive-social-media\/229","title":{"rendered":"The most passive-aggressive phrase in social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ding ding ding! We have a winner for THE MOST passive-aggressive phrase used in Facebook and Twitter posts.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in at number one: &#8220;some people&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As in posting &#8220;<strong>Some people <\/strong>tear down <strong>everything <\/strong>positive we try to do for our community&#8221; instead of &#8220;<strong>Cindy <\/strong>habitually encourages people to think critically before jumping on dubious social media bandwagons with wild enthusiasm!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or &#8220;<strong>Some people<\/strong> overreact to <strong>everything!<\/strong>&#8221; instead of &#8220;<strong>Greg <\/strong>seems empathetic &amp; usually writes passionately when he believes that oppressed people are being harmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"some girls - the rolling stones by oddsock, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oddsock\/62162981\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/30\/62162981_bf99762f0a.jpg\" alt=\"some girls - the rolling stones\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo Credit: <a title=\"Some Girls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oddsock\/62162981\/\" target=\"_blank\">OddSock <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the legions of &#8220;<strong>some people<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>everything<\/strong>&#8221; posters out there, please note: there is but one letter of difference between &#8220;posting&#8221; and &#8220;pouting&#8221;. You can make a stronger case if you write with specificity as well as passion. Engaging directly with folks who think differently can help you adjust or strengthen your point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping your sense of humor can help, too.<\/p>\n<p>What are your runner-ups for the most counterproductive phrases you&#8217;ve seen in Twitterville and Facebookland lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ding ding ding! We have a winner for THE MOST passive-aggressive phrase used in Facebook and Twitter posts. Coming in at number one: &#8220;some people&#8230;&#8221;. As in posting &#8220;Some people tear down everything positive we try to do for our community&#8221; instead of &#8220;Cindy habitually encourages people to think critically before jumping on dubious social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-fun","category-social-media","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}