4 posts tagged “social networking”
Sometime yesterday afternoon or was it the day before? I cannot remember now... anyway, I have gone over to what could potentially become twitter's back up/replacement.
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. ;)
I have not used a webcam is ages. Mainly because I (kinda) stopped talking to a few people with whom I video-chat on a regular basis. Another reason was that my webcam died and recently, I lost one of my laptops due to it crashing. Recently, however, I kept seeing many people Utterz-ing and Seesmic-ing. So I found one of my old webcams (I have decided not to buy a new one because the last semi-expensive one I bought ticked me off) and the result as you can see from my previous post was a video utterz! This morning, I decided to dive into my (kinda first) Seesmic video.
I think I might actually start liking my own voice now?
After I typed the title of this post, I realised thelmabowlen has a blog with the same name. But it fits.
I just got my uninterrupted internet access tonight after I got home from the madness that is driving and (window) shopping at the weekend. So I decided to visit some people's blogs and links. One of the many blogs on my friends list showed a link for Facebook and I recall getting an invite to join. So I went there and immediately also remembered I was Tagged not long ago although it does seem eons now. I checked my friends list on tagged and saw that very few of them ever went there anymore.
A friend quipped, "You have to be everywhere even online, don't you?" when I told him about my new blog address. He has kept the same blog, at the same address for years. He abandoned it, more like. At another friend's and my behest, he re-opened the blog and updated it, until recently. He informed me that he is busy with a new project and could not possibly keep up two blogs.
Much earlier, before I went tagging, facebooking, etc, I visited my flickr page and caught up with my friends' photos. My busy friend with the new project posted one new photo that someone sent to him from Atlanta. I suppose opening an email and uploading the attachment in order to share with his friends is not too much work after all.
I checked my hotmail earlier and saw that I had SPAM... One of which is an invite to B4UParty from someone I do not even know. Or maybe I did know him at some point eons ago. Who knows, who cares?
I might have to re-think about my web presence and joining these crazy sites because, really, where do I have time to be networking with teenagers and strangers when I can hardly keep my various blogs updated given my poor connection problems?
Of course I am not saying I am going to be offline because that would be most uncivilised. I am just thinking about being... overstretched. (Is that the world I am looking for?)
