Thinning Out The Social Media Herd
September 11th, 2011 § 2 Comments
For those few of you that followed my Tumblr or Gowalla accounts. I’ve decided to delete my accounts on those two social media services.
I am often an early adopter of many things social media wise. This is good in a way and also bad in another. It’s good in that I get to become familiar with them and bad in that my postings are scattered all over heck and back.
This should also get me back to posting more often over here.
Recently spent some time going through my password manager closing down unused accounts. Several social media services were on that list. Many of them were in the “that’s neat, but who is really gonna use that” category or the “this isn’t really useful until everyone uses it” category. So on.
Secondly, on some level this stuff leaves you feeling empty. Consider this… and these are coals only on my own head. I’ve spent a fair amount of time commenting on your stuff on here, reading your stuff, considering… But in the last few years I have not run into you once, despite the fact we live only a few miles apart. No lunch. No dinner. Never invited your family into my house. Haven’t served with you anywhere… Just some thoughts…
I’m kind of on the fence with Google+, but since I heavily use other Google services I have it even if I don’t use it very much. I was starting to get ticked off at Tumblr as while it’s a neat platform, it was all to easy to run across p0rn even if you weren’t looking for it. I didn’t seem to be getting enough out of it to be worth the risk of wading through smut. Gowalla never seem to have caught on with my friends. Most of them use Facebook’s Check In feature which is where I will go with the location based social media thing.
I understand where you are coming from in your second paragraph. I guess in a way, social media is good in that it does get people to talking who might not otherwise communicate. It is probably a poor substitute for face to face fellowship though. Face to face is something I am sorely lacking in my life. I have a tendency to lead a hermit like existence, a holdover from a somewhat difficult childhood where that is concerned. I’m not a sullen, angry loner, but just a plain old ordinary loner.
However, with enough notice I am up for lunch, coffee, etc.