Social Media's Saving Grace

This morning I wrote about the downside of social media as it specifically pertained to me. In short, it means if you want the whole world to notice you, being choosy about who notices you is not an option. If you put yourself where new friends, and potential customers can find you, the bad guys can find you as well.

The saving grace of the down side of social media is, within minutes of nearly becoming emotionally destroyed by the result of social media, I was also saved by it. I made 477 new friends on Twitter in less than 3 weeks. 6 of those new friends reminded me the magnitude of the kindness of strangers. If I hadn't fished in a sea of millions, I would never have netted the hundreds that held the few that saved me. Social media, in my experience, has been the honey, the venom, AND the antidote!

The Downside of Social Media

Managing a fighter's career requires me to get them noticed, which in turn means I need to be noticed. Look at me, I have fighters. Now look at my fighters. It's a wonderful tool to use Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, themmaspace, anointedfighter, and other socia media sites to reach more people at once. The downside of that is I cannot be choosey about who notices me. To stand up in a crowded room of millions and say, "hey look at me", means to expect everyone will turn and look even if just for the length of that sentence. So far it has been a handy tool in marketing my clothing, casting my documentary, and enabling the careers of several full contact fighters. Today social media made me cry. I woke up to a message on facebook from the guy who raped me when I was 15. The panic that struck in me is indescribable. I have come so far in life just to suddenly be reminded I can never go anywhere where I won't be followed as long as I use social medial as part of my business networking. So do I tank my clothing company and my passion of managing fighters? I mean, let's face it, without social media my career will drag it's knuckles in the dark ages and get nowhere without the aide of social media. Or do I continue what I am doing and let the monsters lurking on the web take their best shot? My name is Kristen Brown, aka Lethal Princess, and I am not a quitter. So, to all you psycho loser monsters preying on the weak and feeble minded, you need to lurk somewhere else because this is a battle of my will to over-come and succeed and you will surely lose! People can only bring you down if you let them and I'm not about to let anyone sink the ship I built myself!