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We Need To Break The Circle Jerk That Soical Media Is Becoming

September 14, 2008 5:50 PM - Sign in to comment - Link

As anyone who reads this blog or listens to any of the podcasts I’ve done you’ll know that one of my big sticking points about the whole social media movement is its high horse save the world attitude. For the main movers and shakers of Web 2.0 and social media it is all about openness and transparency. It is the idea that all software whould be web based and to a very large degree freely available as it uses advertising as its only business model. It is all about using social media tools for every part of your daily live... [Tags: buzzword, circle jerk, driving force, dykeman, facebook]

Yet another awesome post, though the title needs some work. - possible248

*throws yet another draft away* ;) - abacab

I think social media is in danger of becoming a punch line someday :) I mean, I enjoy it - but it's pretty clear that social media and blogging need to be seen as the biased memepools they are. Then you can start getting value from them. Mark Hopkins hit it right on the head. http://is.gd/2u0x - Soulhuntre

Ya - what is THIS? A cult? -starts humming kumbaya- - Mona N

The most brilliant title to any post.. EVER.. how's that for jerkin ya off? :-) - Kyle Lacy

Liking purely for use of term 'circle jerk' =) - Stupid Blogger

Steven, you're dancing around the truth: people outside the bubble don't need us... at all. Social media's virtue is as a way to build networks that need not (and probably can not) break out of their niche. Even on FF, what is the most common request? Improved filters. Even in this bastion of "social networking" we seek to narrow even further our niche and make it a reflection of ourselves. Onanism is not a bad metaphor. - Sprague D

+1 Kyle and Tina - Alex Scoble

Steven: how long has it been since YOU worked a manufacturing job? Or since you wrote about their needs on your blog? Seems you have figured out how to write good headlines, though. Welcome to the headline writers guild of America! :-) - Robert Scoble

The title pissed me off. The title made me read. The title served its purpose. - Michael W. May

Can someone summarize this for me in one sentence please? - nicerobot

Typo in the title, BTW. 'Social Media' isn't a circle jerk, but the people who talk about it might verge on one. If I have a conversation with a carpenter, s/he talks about more than the tools. Even if I were a carpenter, I would be bored to tears with a co-worker who only talked about the tools we use. - Stupid Blogger

Robert kiss my ass :) I've been a store owner, a hot tar roofer (which is where I permanently injured myself) a truck driver a cab driver .. and most importantly I am part of the majority you have no idea of - the living poor so I think I am quite able to talk or write the way I do. - Steven Hodson

+2 @Sprague for this riff: "Onanism is not a bad metaphor." Still, I think the (huge) opportunity is out there to find a way to make this sh*t relevant to regular folks, like mom, and your boss' secretary. So how do we, uh, stop touching ourselves and start touching others outside the echo chamber? - .LAG

+1 Steve. Well said sir, well said. - Kyle Lacy

@SB .. thanks on the Typo .... - Steven Hodson

Maybe it's time to just say "social media has jumped the shark" and stop writing about it - and start writing about stuff we're really interested in. - Jason Kaneshiro

Cool. I used to work on an assembly line. Sold ice cream. Delivered appliances. Was unemployed in 2002 for a time. But you didn't answer the important question: where is YOUR "outside the circle jerk" writing? - Robert Scoble

I haven't written much about social media lately. I really don't care what it is called. - Robert Scoble

I thought that was part of the point. Maybe I misinterpreted. - Michael W. May

The web is a communications infrastructure. It's not about social media but that it's designed to replace or enhance old platforms (phone, broadcast, radio) because it is less expensive, available everywhere, device agnostic and fault resistant. It is a better, cheaper and more stable system to deliver information in case of an emergency. This is where everybody's perspective should be coming from :-) - Patricia

@Robert now yer just being facetious .. there is plenty on the blog written about stuff other than social media in the 1,600+ posts - Steven Hodson

Commented on the blog, Steven. - Mark Dykeman

Hehe, Robert...Yeah, thankfully it's been a long while since you've blogged about Twitter. - Alex Scoble

We Need To Break The Circle Jerk That Soical Media Is Becoming - Corvida

like just for the use of "Circle Jerk" in title - adolfo foronda

This line, in the last paragraph, is interesting, "They [fiends and family] are looking to us to help keep them safe and show them what the best tools are or what the worst ones are and why." I'm reminded of how I introduce the tools of social media to my immediate family members. Instead of saying, "Go start a FaceBook profile or Flickr/Picasa account," I instead start them out in a closed environment within our family tree, on the genealogy site Geni.com This allows them to manage their profiles in a totally secure space while experimenting with photo tagging, video embeds, book and movie links, discussion forums, and social networking. Once adept, I encourage them to expand outside the environment and pursue larger, more anonymous services. For both seniors and less tech-savy peers, this model for integration was worked surprisingly well. - Christopher Harley

Faster pussycat! - Steve Follmer

After this thread, I think I'm going back to the Hurricane room??!! - Charlie Anzman

We Need To Break The Circle Jerk That Social Media Is Becoming - Rob Diana

We Need To Break The Circle Jerk That Social Media Is Becoming - Dobromir Hadzhiev

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