“I wish there were a for-pay service I could switch to which would be easy and fast and nothing would break. I think the free email has killed off all the good for-pay email.” – Dave Winer From Opt Out’s ‘Free as in Lunch’ chapter: “An email client that can handle today’s daily onslaught of …
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I’ve Got a Theory…
My hypothesis suggests that social media engagement and macroeconomic conditions are inversely related. Meaning: as people become more professionally engaged they will naturally engage less with social media. Yes, this means the boom in Facebook and Twitter activiy etc over the past 4 years was more about people coping with interesting times than anything else. …
Like Eternal September
“Facebook became uncool when it opened up the site to people who weren’t in your same college.” – jshintaku While I dislike Facebook, I find the possibility that, it’s popular because it once was cool, very amusing. “Eternal September is a Usenet slang expression, coined by Dave Fischer, for the period beginning September 1993. The …
Things Your Friends Don’t Want to Hear
“I couldn’t keep up, and I felt negligent. It was more work than what it was worth, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a bunch of useless junk. It was a big time suck.” – David Stephenson on quitting social media
Disconnect Today, Disconnect Tomorrow
“Disconnect for a day or two. Put your phone in airplane mode for most of the day; turn off your laptop’s WiFi for the other 23 hours. Plan a project and complete it without using anything more than your phone’s 3G as a reference manual. The world won’t go anywhere—you just may find that you’re …
Email is the Common Social Network
“Email is the one application that is on every connected device out of the box. You don’t need to visit the app store to access email. It is the lowest common denominator of networked applications. People know how to use email an they check it very regularly.”
“Keep the Browser Closed”
Unchecked
“…the new Sabbath Manifesto app, for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry and other smartphones, announces to your social networks and online community through Facebook and Twitter that you are unplugging and will not be available online. Users can also sign up for text alerts that will remind them on Friday to unplug. ” – Tanya Schevitz
Funproductive
“Reading productivity posts in itself is a highly unproductive exercise. Our time probably would have been better spent by looking at cats on Reddit instead.” – Jason Kim
SocialSwarm.net
“We want to put the users of social network services back in control of their data. We want You to be able to choose which people see your data. We want to be independent from centralized infrastructures. We want a social swarm.”