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putting the personal in social media
September 16th, 2009 by Sascha received 7 Comments »I know, I know, I know….a lot of people are complaining about this topic nowadays. And usually I don’t tend do jump on every train (don’t say anything wrong now!), but in this case, I have to give my 25 cents (it’s a little more than 2 today) – and actually I already complained about that phenomenon some time ago…
People gettin toooo personal in Social Media. You know why it’s called Social Media and not “Share your f…ing & boring life with everyone you know and let everyone participate at your whining”??? Yes, ’cause it is about being social! Sharing, helping, explaining….it’s all good and I really appreciate that. But why the hell are so many people telling literally everything. I mean EVERYTHING?!
You split up with girlfriend? Had sex with one of your relatives? WHATEVER! Go and tell it your REAL friends!
And what about those f..ing games everyone is playing? xyz gained 100 black sheep in farmville…yay. great man! You did it! You’re the man! Sure I can ignore all that messages – and that’s what I tend to do – but why do I need this? You know….why do people feel the need to communicate so much information, that nobody else wants to know? (alright, you could say the same thing about my blog, but at least you can choose whether your coming to my blog or not).
Alright….before I get to much into it, I quit here and spam some of my facebook connections…;-)
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You better quit Facebook :D
Seriously, I think there’s no such thing as “the right way” to communicate on Facebook/Twitter/whatever. Use it the way you wanna use it. Yes, I find those Farmville games annoying. But since I’m working in this business I’m fine with people spending their time with social media.
As for getting personal: I do post personal stuff on FB. Because I wanna keep in touch with friends I don’t get to see that often (or those who live abroad). And I do still meet people in real life :-)
the value of (shared) content is depending on it’s context. since there is no such thing like an objective world it is possible that this shared content has different value for different people.
but let’s not forget about the tons of advertising spam that you find in your newsfeed or twitter stream ;-) accept it or choose your friends and follower more carefully.
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@Lisa: Right, there is not “the right” or “the one” way to communicate within social media. that’s why it is so cool to be part of it. seeing how it develops. And the cool thing about blogging is the same ;) It is just my personal opinion, that I really really really feel ashamed when I read that someone just quit with his boyfriend or got injured while doing things I even don’t wanna know that they exist…
As you already know I’m working in the business as well and do post personal stuff too – but you know, there’s kind of a boundary…this point I that stops me from going to deep. It’s like you won’t take a stroll through the city and tell people you barely know what and how often you did last night…
This is where it comes @eranium: Sure I could only add close friends. But that’s not what Social Media is for – at least in my opinion. I really enjoy getting in touch with people that are not my “real” friends (like both of you) and share knowledge, opinions, etc…
Honestly I know of course that there’s more in life to complain about, that’s for sure ;-) But from time to time one simply has to say what’s jaring on ones nerves ;-)
I get your point, some people are really abusing the idea of status updates. I just don’t like how it all (especially Twitter) is turning into only sharing links and promoting your stuff platforms. Cause really, I’d rather read that you’re having a great day than yet another retweet of some social media statistics. Sometimes I feel like there’s only social media marketers on Twitter.
As for boundaries, this is how I handle it: Whenever I’m about to post something on FB, I’m asking myself if I’d tell that my friends (I know most of them personally) when I ran into them in real life. And yes, I’d tell you about my half naked neighbor if I ran into you (then again, we’re not even FB friends ;-) ). Btw, have we met at the TVP09 party?
Wooohooo. Finally someone gets my point :-) You’re completely right and I am with you in this point. I’d rather read that someone had a great day out skydiving or whaterver than the 205th mashable retweet. That’s exactly why I stick with people I find interesting and do not tend to increase my followersize by just adding some of the so called “social media gurus”.
actually I’d love to read about your half naked neighbour. ’cause that’s something I consider kinda funny (well, I guess) – like I’d tell you about partner swaping at club danube (uhm.. ;-) ). And unfortunately we have not met at TVP09 Party since I had some visitors from Berlin and therefore had to spent my time with “touristic highlights”
Ok, I thought you were part of Alex’ entourage at the party. I’ll tell you the story about my neighbour if we ever meet in real life ;-)
Nope. I was just passive #TVP09 follower ;-)
That’s a deal. Since Vienna isn’t that huge…well…;-) But actually, if we meet ever by coincidence, that would be a great story to tell =)