Posted on Jun 19, 2021
Does anyone have any insight on traffic on military social media?
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If you take one look at a flag officers Facebook page or an official branch page of any of the armed forces you will find in addition to random supporters, a whole host of interesting characters.
- Supporters from random countries around the globe professing love for America.
- People wanting to enlist from Africa, South America, and Asia.
- Scammers pretending to be horny generals.
- Scammers claiming to be some boot stuck in another country with no way home.
- People preaching death to America.
- People from countries in strife essentially begging us to invade them to topple their government and improve their way of life.
What you do not see a whole lot of however is actual Americans posting on these pages. I found this to be an interesting look at social media from a foreign perspective and how the world uses it positively or negatively to communicate with the U.S. military or its supporters.
What do you think about the traffic on these pages? Have you informed friends and family about the scammers? Etc.
- Supporters from random countries around the globe professing love for America.
- People wanting to enlist from Africa, South America, and Asia.
- Scammers pretending to be horny generals.
- Scammers claiming to be some boot stuck in another country with no way home.
- People preaching death to America.
- People from countries in strife essentially begging us to invade them to topple their government and improve their way of life.
What you do not see a whole lot of however is actual Americans posting on these pages. I found this to be an interesting look at social media from a foreign perspective and how the world uses it positively or negatively to communicate with the U.S. military or its supporters.
What do you think about the traffic on these pages? Have you informed friends and family about the scammers? Etc.
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New Army leaders are starting to embrace the fact that more people get their news today from Social Media than they do from other internet sites. Social media platforms are now the go-to site now for putting out updates to family members and Soldiers.
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Oh irony................
I'm going to dime out the Military Intel Schoolhouse.
When I was a SPC in AIT we had exodus the first month (started 2-DEC). So my Cadre "encouraged" us to check in when we got home through the unit's FB page. Now they did allow us to call and leave a message, but the preference was FB.
I did not have a FB account until I entered Military Intel School.
Oh irony.
Basically...... once I had that FB account I started linking friendships with classmates (who were generally teens and early 20's) and then all the sudden I was getting friend requests from hot chicks named Kevin (foreign actors not knowing western gender names) who were friends of my classmates.
So I basically had to start trimming my friend list of young idiots and those probing requests stopped.
I feel sorry for the young. According to the internet I basically didn't exist until after 2000. So my entire life before my 30's is unknown. Today's youth can't forget that part of their life.
I'm going to dime out the Military Intel Schoolhouse.
When I was a SPC in AIT we had exodus the first month (started 2-DEC). So my Cadre "encouraged" us to check in when we got home through the unit's FB page. Now they did allow us to call and leave a message, but the preference was FB.
I did not have a FB account until I entered Military Intel School.
Oh irony.
Basically...... once I had that FB account I started linking friendships with classmates (who were generally teens and early 20's) and then all the sudden I was getting friend requests from hot chicks named Kevin (foreign actors not knowing western gender names) who were friends of my classmates.
So I basically had to start trimming my friend list of young idiots and those probing requests stopped.
I feel sorry for the young. According to the internet I basically didn't exist until after 2000. So my entire life before my 30's is unknown. Today's youth can't forget that part of their life.
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Several people I knew on active duty had very low internet profiles and used an alias. Two reasons, they wanted to avoid possible posting something that could get them in trouble and in search for future employment they didn’t want a social media post to hurt them.
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