How We Killed Social Media
4th April, 2008 - Posted by Chance -
I just read a great article from IttyBiz about How We Killed Socal Media and I think you would all enjoy it.
A bit of a rant (I love those) with a lot of truth, it talks about how everyone exploiting the loopholes in social media services has watered down the results for everyone.
Let’s say you’re having a party, and you’ve set aside a certain amount of booze for all of your guests. When you have 10 guests, everybody gets happily loaded and goes to bed with the wrong people and the world is as it should be.
But imagine that each of your friends invited 10 of their own friends. Or 100. Or 1,000. Then you’ve got 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 people sharing the original amount of hooch. No-one’s drunk, and everybody’s looking at each other and wondering why.
That, and any article that has the line “We added shit to the wine and then wondered why the wine tasted like shit” gets my vote.
Check it out, its a great read.
1 Comment
Sundress
April 5th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Great article. Awhile back I was a member of a few groups where people would stumble/digg each other’s articles…but then everything that got submitted was pretty crappy, so I stopped participating. I’m happy to recommend great articles, but there’s so few of these around that some services have become worthless and filled with junk.
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