How Social Media Helps Build Trust

Erik Michielsen: What are the best ways to build the trusting and the sustainable relationships with individuals to social media? Mike Germano: You know it seems that people trust each other when they more about each other, you know you need someone stranger for the first time you have a distance to them and you find out oh we grow up in the same time for some other reason you trust them all. Oh you also have two kids well always and I know trust are live it more or nor parents are both you know both from the same club whatever the case maybe that you find yourself trusting someone more when you know more information about them. But what social media does is it really identifies you and allows you to connect with the people. So, you know Facebook you know there is my profile and you know this is where stand, these my views and where I live this is a little bit about me, here some pictures, here is family, here’s I’m connected too. I seemed like more information out there and it goes back to the wall and you will not hiding anything therefore I’m transparent. And if I’m transparent with my life you should be able to trust me more, that I’m always talking what I am doing and talking where I am you know I don’t really hide a lot information to myself and the argument is always known really care but people do care in certain ways. When they want to start a relationship they like to look at my background on Facebook profile and see wow you knowing that you run the recently the New York City marathon and something very exciting that something my little brother and that was a cool experience to me so to me that has a certain bond that might be more trustworthy in terms of – or how our relationship is now form is different because I know that information about you and know you want to that awesome experience that something that you know that was a great experience in my brother. So to have that information out there it really connects that off because in reality everyone wants to have a connection with someone else. They want to know what makes you take, what we have in common because you like to have something in common or someone else says a very positive feeling. So you look forward and social media and social network in particular allow you to have that connection, allow you to find that because you want to find positive things about someone. And they allow you to satisfy that need. Erik Michielsen: Are there building blocks to building a trusting relationships and social media facilitate creating and sharing those building blocks. Mike Germano: Absolutely and it come to this, you are only going to participate with people that you trust from most part and most to the financial gain to it for those you don’t trust. But the reality is that this is just— everything that happens in the traditional relationships has always happen, it just that social network and social media have allow that to happen much faster.