Social "networking" or social "stressworking"?
What does the term social networking evoke for you: Facebook, Bebo, MySpace LinkedIn, Plaxo, Friendsreunited etc etc?
In the bricks and mortar world, your local coffee shop - I refrain from mentioning just Starbucks, nice though their coffess are - or bar, church, work cafe or pub could each suffice as a viable channel for social networking.
However with accounts on Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn and Plaxo, I think I may be suffering from a case of social stressworking. In fact, I know sure I am.
Keeping up to date with profiles, friend requests and the like has for me, become, well, a bit tiresome. The process of keeping all those the delicate china plates spinning at once has become too time consuming. That's time when I could be leaving my cares of even the internet world behind and getting into reading a good (physical) book.
Don't get me wrong I am not going to become a hermit. And I certainly don't begrudge those who send me friend requests online, it's just having to manage so many different channels. [Such is the choice available on the internet - vive la difference!!]
But for me I'm having to focus down to one tool of choice. And that has to be Facebook, what with its third party apps, security warts and all. It is the most expressive and intelligent of the tools I've seen. Plus, a lot of my mates are members too.
While LinkedIn and (for its automated housekeeping ability) Plaxo stretch socially across the great personal and business divide, I have yet to realise tangible benefits from either.
But for me, Bebo: your time has come. You are excommunicated!!
Phew.
In the bricks and mortar world, your local coffee shop - I refrain from mentioning just Starbucks, nice though their coffess are - or bar, church, work cafe or pub could each suffice as a viable channel for social networking.
However with accounts on Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn and Plaxo, I think I may be suffering from a case of social stressworking. In fact, I know sure I am.
Keeping up to date with profiles, friend requests and the like has for me, become, well, a bit tiresome. The process of keeping all those the delicate china plates spinning at once has become too time consuming. That's time when I could be leaving my cares of even the internet world behind and getting into reading a good (physical) book.
Don't get me wrong I am not going to become a hermit. And I certainly don't begrudge those who send me friend requests online, it's just having to manage so many different channels. [Such is the choice available on the internet - vive la difference!!]
But for me I'm having to focus down to one tool of choice. And that has to be Facebook, what with its third party apps, security warts and all. It is the most expressive and intelligent of the tools I've seen. Plus, a lot of my mates are members too.
While LinkedIn and (for its automated housekeeping ability) Plaxo stretch socially across the great personal and business divide, I have yet to realise tangible benefits from either.
But for me, Bebo: your time has come. You are excommunicated!!
Phew.
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