To that end I always think about the diverse reactions I used to see while flying Southwest Airlines. Southwest has the cattle call lines, no assigned seats, no frills, sometimes even a middle row seat. Northwest I consistently got First Class, almost every flight, HOWEVER, I liked, I enjoyed, I laughed with, I had a favorable experience with, Southwest. I found great value in Southwest, but Value, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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I hate clichés, but I truly do believe that it’s all a case of “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Value is completely subjective. However, social media can be deceiving in the whole “human aspect,” as I recently found out.

I got a comment recently on one of my blogs from a real person, it wasn’t what I perceived to be spam at all–it was actually pertaining to the content in the post. OK, fair enough. This dude started following me on Twitter, so I followed him back because he’s a Toastmaster and we had that in common.

Yesterday I got a DM from him: Hi! Just posted a little bit ago. Would U plz retweet? http://tinyurl.com/numbers LOST 13 lbs 10 days! Healthy method. UCAN2 or a friend!

Now, if that’s not spammy I don’t know what is. I immediately unfollowed him. He was pushing something I never indicated any interest in “pulling” for; he pitched something I didn’t want, didn’t care about, never indicated I had any interest in, ever. Did he think he was sharing? Or did he know he was pitching? I don’t know, but perhaps if I were interested in losing 13 lbs quickly, or gave any indication in my tweets that I wanted/needed to lose weight, maybe I would have put value on it. Instead, all I could think was, “Do my pics on the internet make me look fat?!”