Comments on: Too Anti-Social For Social Media

By: Based On My Wife, I’ve Been Using Social Media Incorrectly » Webomatica - Entertainment and Tech Digest

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:51:13 +0000

[…] more social than I am in the offline world — has been using social media less than I, an admittedly anti-social person who has strangely been using it to an excess. It’s no surprise I got burned […]

By: webomatica

webomatica — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:35:14 +0000

I guess no social network has discovered some magical “social media” formula
similar to Google’s PageRank alogrithm…

By: spragued

spragued — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:25:03 +0000

I think this is an excellent blog post -- exactly what I look for in personal writing: honest and very insightful. It's a very rich irony, isn't it, that social media networks are invented by exactly the kind of people who are least likely to crave great amounts of social interaction? Maybe that's why they don't really *work* very well...

Someday some big brain at Stanford will tell us what we were really engaging in all this time.

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:21:30 +0000

Interesting new media, but they consume a lot of time.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:18:12 +0000

Definitely give it a good shot. There have been some benefits - a few folks
I know only online that I fully intend to keep in touch with, and has led to
some fun opportunities I wouldn't have had otherwise.
But at the end of this experiment I feel pretty confident in saying the old
adage "it's not for me." And I've found it a pretty large distraction from
other things I really should be spending more time on - stuff that I'm
pretty confident will make me happier in the long run.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:59:16 +0000

Yeah, I've also been retreating back to the core of Facebook and Twitter -
not currently on Facebook, but getting very close to activating my account
again and setting everything to private save a handful of real world folks.
Then Twitter takes care of everything else.
Please, nobody set up an antisocial network. It'd be really hard to gain
members.

By: FriendFeed Could Do Comments Better » Webomatica - Entertainment and Tech Digest

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:42:45 +0000

[…] is taking things a bit far. I personally like my analogy FriendFeed as a cocktail party or the personally uncomfortable situation of jocks and cheerleaders having loud sex on a UNIX workstation, but now that I think about it, the spread of syphilis could occur via either my analogies as an […]

By: jeber

jeber — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:07:50 +0000

I keep trying to make a go of social networks, but I agree that it’s usually too much like trying to start a conversation at a party where everyone else knows each other and is talking about something else.
Still, I’m sticking with it for now. If it continues to be an unprofitable and unpleasant experience I may find myself slowly withdrawing over time. Unfortunately I doubt many will notice or care. I suppose that’s OK, though.

By: Podophile

Podophile — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:36:11 +0000

It's one of the reasons I stopped updating my blog last year... the pressure (responsibility) to stay engaged with my audience, especially as traffic grew. I'm a loner who works in a highly social industry (theatre) and at the end of a long day of being social at work, I just don't have the energy to socialize online (though I've been dipping my toe back into blogging). I still enjoy Twitter and Facebook, but more as a reader than as a contributor.

Just last night I posted this on Facebook: "Catching up with a week's worth of status updates. I think I'm better suited to anti-social networking."

Glad I'm not the only one.

-Daniel