Whores!
After being offline-ish the past few days, I logged on to various websites I belong to and while looking at MyBlogLog page, it hit me - we are all WHORES! Yes, attention whores. Not that it is a bad thing. We want to connect, meet and get to know new people online and hopefully have the resources to meet them offline. How else are we to meet these new people if we are not out there, making our presence known?
Indeed.
The easiest way to make our presence known is to join twitter, Pownce, jaiku, to name a few (OK, I am really getting tired of adding linkages. Sorry) find and (actively) interact with others while of course providing links to our various blogs and flickr photo pages, etc.
That is not the part that suddenly slapped me this morning. It was the MyBlogLog page. MY MyBlogLog page. There's the link to see my various blogs, there is the link to my various friends and contacts, there is the link to my various social networking sites, there is the link on how to instant message, email, skype, etc. me. It is not enough we are delving into each other's public lives, we have to invite everyone to chit chat with us, find our friends (also a form of self-promo of course if you are everyone's friend. ;)) we invite them to look at our photos, find out everything there is to find out about us.
Of course not everyone is an attention whore. Only those who declare they are the best-looking, most creative, etc and not to mention, screaming the most controversial things just to get a rise out of others. No, the quiet and nice ones are not attention whores. Wrong.
If you have links to various blogs, music lists, book lists, etc, and you post them everywhere, you, my dear, are an attention whore. But you are not alone. And it is not a bad thing. Just be sure to come to terms with the fact that you are an attention whore. ;)
