>BS or Bravo!?
on December 30, 2009 at 12:00 am>
Social media is can be a time-consuming endeavor.
One of my high ranking Twitter connections told me in private, “I think you’re over-thinking it, working way too hard.” I replied, “Bulls##t! You didn’t get all those loyal followers just tweetin’ random stuff, I know you use tools, apps, and formatics for your account.”
Social media is wonderful except with a major side effect: it’s killing our attention spans.
I for one, choose to hang on to mine for a few years longer. 😉
Happy New Year,
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>I hope that more of the scammerfluff will get bored or disapointed and move away from Twitter. I hope that the number runners will all find some help for their ego issues. And I hope that more real people like you, Andy and you, Peter will continue to add followers thoughtfully one by one and make twitter a place for real people to have real interactions. The silly contests and voting things are polarizing the populace and wasting time. But my friends, the kind, thoughtful, funny, sweet friends I cherish are still there so I go to see them. A lot 🙂
>Twitter can easily become an ego contest. There are people like me who build up "real friends" slowly without using Bots/Tools/Tricks, than there are cheaters who use them to over-inflate their #. I made the same mistake chasing after # for the sake of popularity. But twitter seized to be functional after following about 100 people. Their tweets simply pass down the pages too fast to be able to follow anybody. Real Conversation becomes increasingly more difficult as reply can quickly get lost. After taking a 2 months break from twitter. I seriously thinking about cancelling my account all together. I decided in 2010 to give my twitter a 2nd change. This time – I WILL NOT CHASE AFTER #. This time, it will be a very PRIVATE Account. Just a few selected genuine people who have real intelligent + real substance behind their conversation. Thank you Andy for following me back. If you agree with what I'm saying and is genuine too, drop me a friend request to twitter (007y)
>Private feedback from an award winning social media expert sent to me via Twitter message about the above post.
"I can't just walk away. Clients and people depend on me".
[my response] 25 years in radio, #2 morning show in the state of Wisconsin.. I thought that, too. To my shock, people's lives went on without me when I moved back to Texas to help care for my parents.
But I understand the feeling of of new found social media fame and celebrity. I sure as hell don't do acting and comedy for the pay… it's the applause! 😉
>Hey, Love the picture! Understand the feelings about social networking. I stopped tweeting because I was getting nothing from it. I have to spend enough of my days putting others first and that is how tweeting made me feel. It just felt like *Look at me, see me, look what I said, tell everyone what I said, me, me, me,me,me,me,me,me!* I tried to stay up and be interested for as long as I could. I wanted to see what people had to say and what was going on in their lives, after all I am a voyeuristic person. But after a few weeks I realized I was neglecting myself. If I had small kids I know it would have been neglecting them too. So I said bye tweet people one night and then deleted my account. Looks like that is what you did with your facebook. Facebook for me is easier to keep up with and not as many needy people on it for me. So that is my thinking and feelings. Hope you and your family have a great New Year!
>what a sweet family picture. patrick ray is getting sooo big!
yep. better keep things in perspective, daddy.