I recently had a fascinating conversation with a group of bright PhD students who were net enthusiastic about social media but felt great about watching & learning but fearful of chiming in. If that describes you, what holds you back from posting? And as we move to this new platform, is there anything that we can do to facilitate your participation?
The types of issues that the students brought up included things like fear that their posts might be wrong or misinterpreted.
I usually only chime in to ask questions because I've always assumed that I'm not quite at the point where I know anything worth contributing.
But if I did contribute, I think being ignored would always my worst case outcome.
Assuming communication is social signalling, signals with a net positive or negative valence are still signals I can work with, but no signals at all just sort of leave me paralyzed and fumbling for how to react next.
