I've given insights on when to tweet, how pictures increase your Facebook Fan Page's engagement, and how Pinterest is taking over social media. Now I feel it’s time to take a step back and review, what I believe, is proper social media etiquette because I don’t think many people realize that these etiquettes exist.

• If you mention someone in a tweet or on a Facebook wall post, TAG THEM! It’s really not that hard if you are on Facebook. Just use @[name], the same goes for Twitter.

• If you mention someone in your blog, link back to their blog!
• Links do matter to Google and to the people you care about. When you can, give them a link.
• If someone’s work inspires your own blog post, it’s a nice thing to “hat tip” them with a link to the post that inspired you, somewhere in the post
• Every blog I know has a share/like/tweet/stumble button at the bottom or somewhere. They’re there for a reason. If you like the article, pushing those buttons is a “tip jar” for the artist. Push it. It doesn’t take long.
• If you decide to unfollow someone, don’t make an ordeal about it and announce why. Just leave.
• If you retweet something interesting, always give credit to who found it first.
• If you repin something interesting, always give credit to who found it first.
• Don’t proclaim yourself as a Guru/Expert. PCWorld describes it best:

“...Seeing 40 bazillion Einstein sayings every hour doesn’t inspire me to do much other than smack my face repeatedly on my keyboard. And you can quote me on that....The hallmarks of the "social media expert"--a term that always calls for the use of heavy air-quotes--include spamming people about one's stupendous social marketing skills”

I think that this list is sufficient (and long) enough to give you the idea of social media etiquette. It’s all about sharing without being pompous, because we all know that  sharing is caring. =)

What do you think of this list? Do you have anything else to add? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!

*Originally posted at ActivEngage's blog