In the age of social networking sites, vlogging, blogging, sms, and short posting sites like Twitter, we are bombarded with ways to communicate with and to everyone. Not to mention there are IM clients, IRC chat rooms, video websites, and, and thousands of user created forums and chat pages placed on websites around the world for strangers to talk to strangers.
So, in this age of anonymous conversations, have we gone too far. Have we reached a point where if you arent a member of all of the Facebooks, MySpaces, Youtubes, and Yahoo Chats, that we have even a harder time finding people we actually want to know. Just looking at my piece of the world, I am a member of Facebook, Myspace, Youtube. I have accounts on twitter, diggnation, friend feed and who knows how many other web-connection sites.
I am to the point where I need a newsreader to aggregate all of my postings, pages, and sites into one place, so I don’t spend hours looking at them all.
Born now are the OpenIDs where you can just enter one ID for all sites. But then what. What happened to having a self made website, where I can post about me, sell my stuff, or rant, all in once place. Why do I have to have links to links to links to just get my page out there so strangers can spend 10 seconds looking at my crap, and move on… to more crap.
I wish I could just post once, one place, And all of my social sites are updated at one time. No more going to all of the sites updating them all with little tidbits, to just ramble around looking at others tidbits and then log off feeling I have accomplished nothing.
And does anybody really care what I had for dinner? Or “what I am doing”? Does society really care that much that I stubbed my toe, or I am “having a bad day…. mood…tired”?
I dont know if I can back out now. I have them. They addict me, and pull me in. Can we just get back to talking, with live people, in person? Or have we reached a point that looking into the windows of strangers is my social connection to the outside world.
Filed under: Random Thoughts | Tagged: social networking
You do have a choice to post once and in one place, but you choose not to. It’s the internet, people have the attention span of a gnat on here so they will spend 10 seconds on each post – no matter how many times you post or where you post it. Post once, if people find and read it then good.
Post for yourself, not others. After all it’s the internet, who cares?