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Social Media Narcissism

August 26, 2008

in Blogging, Culture, Politics, Religion, Social Media, Society

When going through the process of adding / friending / following in social media, we often look for a common characteristic in our ‘friends’. These characteristics can be anything, from the love of tech, design, political affiliation or religion or any other type of culture. Why do we do this? It’s an attempt in the perpetual battle of finding the the signal amongst the noise, but on that journey, are we falling prey to too much narcissism?

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Tags: community, conversation, echo chamber, Politics, Religion, Social Media

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I Chose The Echo Chamber

July 30, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media

After reading a recent post by Steven Hodson it made me think some more about the dreaded ‘echo chamber’ and its effects. In my opinion, the echo chamber is what you make it. Chances are you’ve isolated yourself on Twitter, or FriendFeed, or dare I say, even Facebook. This is understandably so, we have only so much time to ~~waste~~ spend online and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up as technologies advance and networks grow.

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Tags: Blogging, community, conversation, echo chamber, friendfeed, Social Media

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Frienderati: Making it Easy to Find Popular Inactives

July 14, 2008

in Social Media

Guy Kawasaki has recently come up with a new Alltop list of FriendFeeders called Frienderati. It’s very unclear as to how this list was generated; but one thing’s for sure — it wasn’t based on how active they are. Tony Hung doesn’t get it either.