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Firstly, if you’re in new media, social media, new marketing, publicity, or public relations, you need to subscribe to the Inside PR podcast. Secondly, before you continue embarrassing yourself professionally by using all the words you have been using incorrectly, you need to read through the Inside PRoper English archives. Seriously. You’re embarrassing yourself. The rest of this post is non-essential.

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Note: Julia Roy gave me permission to write about this. I’m posting it without her reading it first.

A week or so ago I noticed that a tweet on Twitter that showed concern for Julia Roy, a 24-year old social media enthusiast. I’ve never met Julia and while we’ve just started following another on Twitter, she seems to be the way she comes off…a young attractive, enthusiastic woman who has woven social media aspects into both her professional and public life.

It seems that some time last fall, Julia was contacted by one Chuck Adkins via IM. Now Julia is in New York City. Chuck is in Michigan. Apparently Chuck saw Julia, thought she was attractive and noticed that she had posted her IM handle while on Twitter. So he IMed her. They had a few conversations over the course of a couple of weeks. Julia says that she explained to Chuck that she was ‘taken’ and feels that he was “overly complimentary”. Chuck himself admits in an Utterz that he found her to be attractive. Hence, he contacted her. Read more…