It’s good. Though I think Anil overestimates the social value of Facebook, Twitter, etc. But, on the flip side, you won’t know I said this because I don’t have a presence on those places – and I want to be the kind of person that does. Blah.
“The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you’re detracting from them because all your efforts are focussed on making them look attractive to other people. Your experience of something, even if similar to the experience of many others, is unique and cannot be reproduced within [...]
“We were surprised by how many people have a negative experience from Facebook with envy leaving them feeling lonely, frustrated or angry.” – researcher Hanna Krasnova from the Institute of Information Systems at Berlin’s Humboldt University
“What is the Fast Web? It’s the out of control web. The oh my god there’s so much stuff and I can’t possibly keep up web. It’s the spend two dozen times a day checking web. The in one end out the other web. The web designed to appeal to the basest of our intellectual [...]
“I see Google as solving legitimately difficult technological problems, not doing stupid things like cloning Facebook. Google, in my opinion, lost sight of what was important when they went down this rabbit hole.” – Spencer Tipping
“I strongly believe the contemporary fetish of liking and sharing cheapens the way we consume our information. Don’t get me wrong, I do see value in community driven content, but there’s also a lot of dirt and sensationalism. Some days it feels like I’m reading the front page of a cheap tabloid.” – Jef Claes
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. [...]
“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
“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.