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That sucking sound? Your life and Social Media

Jun 09, 2009

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At some point in everything we get involved in as human being will suffer some sort of backlash, whether it be on a personal level or a group level. With the rapid growth of Social Media and all the services that feed off of it, like Twitter, it isn’t surprising that some people are feeling the crush of having to be immersed in the whole thing.

There have been times myself where I have sat back and wondered what the hell am I doing. With my attention being split in so many directions and feeling sometimes like I will never catch up I can relate to this sense of drowning in the river of news. It doesn’t help as we move further into the many different interpretations of the real-time Web – if anything it may only speed up this sense of frustration or constant struggling to keep up.

One blogger who I really like reading related the other day his sense of struggling only to come to the decision that it was time for him and social media to part ways. Granted it took a week of enforced absence from the web as a whole before Jay Cruz realized this tipping point had

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Albert Wm Gosnall,

Jun 09, 2009

Awesome and frightening!