I particularly enjoy reading insightful, illuminating ideas that have clarity/thought to them. Beware, I’m slow at reading, even slower at writing, subsequently I rarely use twitter, Flickr and never use Facebook, myspace or vimeo. Credit to social media’s ability to connect/share/self publish but predominantly I’m coming away feeling like it’s a popularity contest for your attention – AND – I’m not fast enough to type, nor fast enough to read galileans of odd snippets of thinking – AND – for those of you with narcissistic tendencies, stay away.
Seth Godin say:
I don’t really use Twitter. It’s not really me. I also don’t actively use FaceBook, and I’m not adding any friends, though I still have an account for the day when I no doubt will. I also don’t actively use Flickr or MySpace or Meebo. My reasoning is simple, and it has two parts. First, I don’t want to use a tool unless I’m going to use it really well. Doing any of these things halfway is worse than not at all. People don’t want a mediocre interaction. Second, I don’t want to add a layer of staff between me and the tools I use and the people I interact with. I think both of these ideas go together, and unfortunately, they’re also a paradox. If you want to be in multiple social media and also have a day job, you’re going to need a staff.
Nicely done. I agree.
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Mo Koyfman said some insightful thoughts about the power of twitter to do good:
David Pogue of NYTimes says it nicely:
DON’T KNOCK IT TILL YOU’VE TRIED IT Of course, this advice goes for anything in life. But listen: even my own masterful prose can’t capture what you’ll feel when you try Twitter. So try it.
If you don’t get any value from it, close the window and never come back; that’s fine. Despite all the press, Twitter is still largely a geek and early-adopter phenomenon at this point.