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Layers of social media
06/05/09 13:06 Filed in: Social
networking practice
I like social media. I do like social media, social
networking, whatever you want to call it. It’s
just that sometimes people get it a little wrong.
Let me elaborate. They get the idea that people will want to know interesting stuff. Good. They find something on the Web. Great. They think someone else might want to know so they opt to share it. Right up until this point I’m with them.
Then they Facebook it - put it on their FB page. OK, still good. Then they link to their FB Page - not the original page - with some sort of scrunged social media site that aggregates links. At this stage they’re starting to lose the plot ever so slightly because if I come across their favourites on Digg, or Delicious, or whatever, I don’t want to be taken to a Facebook page, I want to go straight to whatever it was that’s piqued their fancy.
Then they Tweet the aggregator site. So to find whatever it was that interested them I have to receive their Tweet - no problem there - then click through to some daft aggregator site, work out how to bypass that, end up on their Facebook profile and eventually, very eventually, click through to a picture of a dog that can walk on its hind legs or something.
Sadly by that time I’ve lost the will to live. I’m seriously considering starting a campaign for straightforward links as a result of all this. I’d be intrigued to hear from anyone else who’s had similar experiences.
Let me elaborate. They get the idea that people will want to know interesting stuff. Good. They find something on the Web. Great. They think someone else might want to know so they opt to share it. Right up until this point I’m with them.
Then they Facebook it - put it on their FB page. OK, still good. Then they link to their FB Page - not the original page - with some sort of scrunged social media site that aggregates links. At this stage they’re starting to lose the plot ever so slightly because if I come across their favourites on Digg, or Delicious, or whatever, I don’t want to be taken to a Facebook page, I want to go straight to whatever it was that’s piqued their fancy.
Then they Tweet the aggregator site. So to find whatever it was that interested them I have to receive their Tweet - no problem there - then click through to some daft aggregator site, work out how to bypass that, end up on their Facebook profile and eventually, very eventually, click through to a picture of a dog that can walk on its hind legs or something.
Sadly by that time I’ve lost the will to live. I’m seriously considering starting a campaign for straightforward links as a result of all this. I’d be intrigued to hear from anyone else who’s had similar experiences.
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