September 17, 2009 • 5:19 pm 0
It was just something someone wrote on my wall after I published the news on Facebook (yeah, all my friends are not as geeky as me, hence I am the news-breaker…). Two celebrities die in the same day and we were and are still waiting to hear media saying they were both murdered. That's what we tend to do nowadays. So, were they? Time will tell, people around the world demand someone to blame every death on.
January 27, 2009 • 2:20 pm 0
“They come in pairs, threes, tenth, even hundreds“
Today I had luch at the best Indian restaurant in town, a lovely meal of lamb curry. While waiting for my food, two young mothers entered the restaurant, dragging their prams. Suddenly the quiet place exploded with laughter and that typical chattering that only young mothers who meet somewhere can produce. Amazed by their energy I started to listen to them discussing dipers, toys and husbands.
In Sweden we have given these mothers the name “latte mums”, referring to their special and unique ability to gather up in hundreds around the city’s coffee shops drinking latte all day long. Some hate them, some enjoy their lively enthusiasm. Basically, you will hardly find an empty table at a café between 10 and noon. They are all taken by latte mums and their prams.
“Socialize while you’re alive“
Around 4 p.m my Twitter client is starting to run nuts. Thank god, Twhirl do have the option to disable sound notification, if it didn’t I would probably get rid of it. 4 pm in Sweden would be 10-ish am in the States, which means the social media geeks are all loging in to Twitter at the same time. A frantic chatting starts to fill my Twitter window. Most of the tweents are in the nature of “Thanks @coolguy for the tip. I am off to conference in Vegas. Watch me live at tinyurl.com/2398401.” or ” Fell over the pilates ball this morning. Hurt my knee. No more pilates for six weeks doc says.”
For the next eight ten hours my Twitter is going bananas. Not so much about dipers, toys and husbands, but more of apps, websites, SEO and sports. Now, what can possibly be so darn interesting about this? Nothing really. Not the slightest more interesting then the latte mums and their diper discussions.
…and the winner is!
…the latte mums and the reasons are:
Some of them are quite hot and you can actuall see them socializing. Babies are always cute. They look as if they are having fun and as if they actually are enjoy socializing with each other.
This is the difference between social media online and socializing offline. I bet that all Twitter users are ugly as hell…
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January 26, 2009 • 10:32 pm 0
Imported from my other blog netspotter.net (discountinued)
I just had to ask that question. I do enjoy myself trying and testing new social media tools, appregiators and lifestreaming services, but to be frankly honest I would never spend time reading through someonelse’s lifestream. I mean, how interesting can it be reading short tweets, Facebook status updates and other personal snippets? Okay, if I knew the person personally, perhaps there would be some kind of interest. After all, Facebook offers a bit of that and I do enjoy from time to time to see what my real friends are up to. And I guess this is what lifestreams are about – having real life friends and to put your nose into their lives.
It’s not big brother, it’s more likely little brother. Lifestreaming seems to be the opposite version of secret surveillance – we want to share everything with everyone and it’s up to each and every one of us to chose how much and what to share.Question still remains: how interesting and fun can it be to follow someone’s lifestream? Isn’t that what lifestreams are about? To let other people know what you’re up to?
@Jeppe: Eating toast and drinking gree tea.
@Jeppe: Hungry again. Need to quit smoking.
@Jeppe: Going to town to catch a movie.
@ Hahahaha, right back at ya @yadayada, you stupid cow!
Lifestreaming…streaming my life…what I do now, what I should have done, what I will do, what I am thinking of doing… This brings me to microblogging, a phenomena where someone has come up with the brilliant idea of only let users use 140 letters. Twitter, for instance (which by the way seem to be the last microblogging service to hold on to this soon). If your name isn’t Rob Scoble or Chris Brogan, Twitter is kinda…boring, isn’t it? I mean, how much information can you squeeze into 140 letters? How smart and clever can you be in 140 letters? I don’t know. If I was to tweet @Scoble or @Brogan I would never get a reply. I am a memeber of a fan club, I am a stalker, I am invisible…
Perhaps I am just a social media noob who doesn’t really get this at all. Perhaps I am too stupid to see why Twitter is great. Same goes for lifestreams. I do follow both Brogan and Scoble on various webistes, but it doesn’t make me more of a social media pro, does it? I am still alone tweeting and my 120 Twitter followers don’t give a frack about me anyway. And I do wonder what exactly they do give a frack about…
Social media, microblogging and lifestreams are probably great if you have friends that use it. No friends using it, you are left alone. And in the social media space, no one can hear you scream.
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January 26, 2009 • 10:22 pm 0
I thougt I would give it a shot. After all, I have 100 something followers on Twitter and I am following 40. It can’t hurt to at least try to be a bit social. The plan was to reply to all tweets I get. I did so for 10 minutes. Without even getting a reply back. I even retweeted a couple of tweets. Nothing.
To be honest, I don’t know what else I could do. It would be cool to manage to be one, to be someone, on Twitter but it is just so fracking hard. I am nobody, a loser, in the eyes of a cool well-known Twitter user. I have to live with that, I guess. But hey, you won’t see my cry over Twitter. Twitter is like the Beverly Hills of social media – only the mighty, powerful and important people have access. The rest of us will be showed the door before we even cross the city limits.
Lovely, isn’t it? Social media could be the most asocial please on earth.
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