subject: Social Media Overload - Plugging Out the Noise [print this page] Social Media Overload - Plugging Out the Noise
Chris Brogan recently wrote a great article on the social media crash. In the article he talks about how time and friendship are distorted by the internet. I know that it is true for me. Tell me if anyone else's day goes like this:
1) Wake up, roll over and get iPad and check email, Facebook, blog comments.
2) Go to work. Check email, respond to friend requests, update status, read emails from my dad asking me about my Facebook status, work.
3) Update blog. Make sure blog is being updated on Facebook/Twitter etc. Update Facebook status.
4) Email friend about lunch. Go to lunch. Check in on foursquare where I'm eating and why people should eat there.
5) Send more emails and read listserv posts.
6) Get into bed, use iPad to check email/Facebook.
7) Wake up. Repeat
Ok so maybe not all of you do this but at some point, I'm sure a lot of us do at least two or three of these things. I, as much as the next person, love social media. I love being connected to all of my friends, family, colleagues, random strangers that want to sell me diet pills (I'm not fan...just big boned).
So in all actuality, how social am I really being? How connected am I? Like Chris says, its nothing more than the occasional brushing past one another on the digital stairs. It's not meaningful contact. It's a distorted perception of reality that we have been blindly thrown into.
So, my advice. Turn off your computer. Turn off your phone. Call someone on your landline, ask them what they are doing and if they'd like to get a cup of coffee or lunch. Leave your phone behind. Have a real meaningful conversation with someone that you haven't talked to in awhile. You'd be surprised how m
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