responding to posts

More and more I am noticing that people don't know how to respond to posts: facebook, twitter, blogs.
The first rule of responding to posts is...

READ THE POST

I am not just thinking of longer posts

• I recently posted a multi-paragraph article and within seconds someone had liked it... maybe they liked the title, but there is no way they had time to read the article.

I am thinking of even one sentence posts

• I recently posted something and a couple of people turned the post into something all about them and what they were doing.

READ THE POST

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