社交媒体浪费时间?7种方式也能让你更有效率

Have an idea and need some input or feedback? Ask your social media audience. Often, you don’t even have to ask for feedback. Just put an idea out there and see how much response and sharing it gets.
有一个想法，需要得到输入或反馈？问问你的社交媒体上的听众吧。通常情况下你甚至不需要询问他们来获得反馈。你只需要把你的想法发布出来，然后看看会得到多少回应和分享。

5. Find Ideas
5. 寻找点子

Whether it is for your business, blog, or hobby, there has never been an easier time to find ideas. Want to know what people are thinking, talking about, or have passion for? You have a searchable stream of consciousness at your fingertips. A friend of mine determines his blog post topics by searching for keywords on Twitter and seeing what people are asking about.
不论是为你的生意、博客还是兴趣，从来没有像现在社交媒体这样容易找到点子。想知道人们在思考什么，谈论什么，喜爱什么吗？你只需要动动手指就可以搜索到这些。我的一个朋友通过在Twitter上搜索关键词并观察人们询问的问题，来决定他博客发布的话题。

6. Communicate with a Broad Audience
6. 和更广泛的听众交流

Social media allows individuals greater power than ever to communicate with a large audience. It used to be you had to go through a publisher or big media company. Authors, speakers, experts, can now reach their audience directly, immediately, and in most cases for free.
社交媒体为个人提供了比过去更大的能力来和广泛的听众交流。过去你必须通过出版商或者大型媒体公司才能做到。而现在，作者、演讲者和专家可以直接快速地接触到他们的听众，而且大部分情况下是免费的。

7. Quick Communication
7. 快速交流

There is something special about the brevity of social media. Take Twitter. There is magic in those 140 characters. If you tried that with your email, your recipients would think you were nuts. (Of course, email is for a slightly different purpose.)
社交媒体的简短是有特殊意义的。比如说Twitter（还有微博），短短140字就具有魔力。如果你用电子邮件发同样的内容，你的收件人大概会认为你疯了（当然，电子邮件的目的又有不同）。

Social Media isn’t all about procrastination. It one of the most powerful technologies of our time. So, the next time someone tells you that you are wasting time on social media, tell them that you are being more productive.
社交媒体并不都会让你拖延时间，它是我们这个时代最强大的技术之一，所以，如果下次有人对你说你在社交媒体上浪费时间，告诉他们你比之前更有效率了。

Of course, that may not fly with your boss.
当然，还是别让老板知道的好。