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. …
Category Archives: Social Software
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
Omphaloskepsis.com
“After gazing intently at my own life for a few minutes, I snapped out of it. Just like I thought at the beginning, I mused. * is just a pretty mirror to gaze into narcissistically.” – Jon Mitchell * I removed the name to make a larger point – garrick.