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Originally Posted by Bill
Interesting.
I personally don't aggregate nuthin. I tour a list of sites that I suppose are "1st&2nd gen aggregators" - metafilter, boingboing, various business boards.
I notice I'm spending less time at the few social networking sites I have profiles on.
I can barely conceive or place myself in the mindspace of a twitterer.
I do like going to pornhub to jerk off. It feels like a public service to eat off their servers.
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heh
I know. I think Twitter is dumb but at the same time, I twitter away because I've made more connections and been added to more blog networks than I could have done anywhere else. And that's really all it is, a giant network of bloggers and programmers really- Sure there are people who will twitter that they're eating a bagel or that they're driving their car but people will not continue to follow- It takes a creative tweets to maintain and sustain.... it's really very interesting. Don't forget that most of the time, people are tweeting links. So if you have a site you want people to see, you're going to send tweets out with that link but you have to be careful because spammers are always blocked. So you have to be social and enticing. That's the magic combo- No one likes robots-
I have a couple of pornstars too... Their tweets are actually horribly boring but at least they understand they need to keep it up to keep their fans interested.... social networks are there to stay so people can either scoff at them and watch their numbers dwindle or find a way to embrace and use them for their advantage... Here's a list for 2009 that I thought was very funny because number five pretty much sums it up-
If I had to write 12 Things to Stop Doing in 2009, they would be
1.) Stop watching the news 24/7. Nothing has changed since yesterday.
2.) Stop thinking about risky chances and just start taking them.
3.) Stop wanting to be an entrepreneur/small business owner and do it already.
4.) Stop saying you will travel the world. Flights to Europe just got a lot cheaper— anyone for the Azores?
5.) Stop thinking your company will succeed without a social media presence.
6.) Stop thinking that you don’t have to contribute to the discussion.
7.) Stop thinking that the world is going to come to your feet.
8.) Stop thinking you don’t have to work for it because he didn’t have to.
9.) Stop thinking economic recession means you are doomed to failure (see Iceland and geothermal warming).
10.) Stop thinking you don’t have what it takes….
11.) Stop believing that filling your life with things/meetings/work means you are living a full life.
12.) Stop. Stop reading. Stop doing. Stop wasting time avoiding thinking