I had an interesting experience a few months ago with direct messaging on Twitter. It wasn’t a scam or fraudulent and I didn’t lose anything, but I did gain some insight.
We’ve all been told to not believe everything that we see on the internet, and I am sure that everyone reading this would have heard this and has probably told someone else the same.
We know to be on alert for phishing scams and other types of fraudulent activity online. When we are being vigilant, we are watching for worst case scenarios.
I had an interesting experience a few months ago with direct messaging on Twitter. It wasn’t a scam or fraudulent and I didn’t lose anything, but I did gain some insight.
I had direct messaged a local community leader on Twitter regarding a column idea I had. We messaged back and forth, and I felt like I had made a connection with this individual and I felt good about it. In my mind I had started to build a professional rapport with them, and they had messaged me praising me for some of the work in the community I had done.
It wasn’t until months had passed that I saw the person in the community, and I approached them in a friendly way because I thought we’d already had a connection and I asked a professional question about a project I was working on.
They looked at me, and I could tell that they didn’t know who I was. I felt embarrassed and introduced myself and still, it didn’t go well.
Before the run in, I’d actually sent them a…
