Sometimes addiction to social networking and mobile technologies becomes a dangerous illness, which shows itself in mysterious ways. It is hard to predict exact consequences, but the facts are quite negatively impressive.
I like Scoblizer or Robert Scoble a lot for interesting interpretations of nowadays media tendencies. But his real-time baby birth ceremony was something I can not appreciate nor logicaly neither spiritualy. He continuously transmitted various facts from the birth process of his child. Try to feel his emotions of a “real father”:
1. At first he wrote an email to the members of the family and to friends, calling to watch Twitter updates.
2. Then he checked in on Google Latitude, Gowalla, and FourSquare “so that people would know we were at the hospital.”
We already talked about the importance of your social media activity. The things are more serious than one can imagine. Do you know, that police also watches Youtube videos and reads Twitter feeds? Sure, everybody heard about several cases and today we have a new one.
LA Times reports: “Cyrus Yazdani, a 26-year-old San Jose State graduate, gained a near-cult following after a YouTube video was posted of him vandalizing a sign 20 feet above the busy 101 Freeway. “Buket,” the daredevil tagger who gained Internet notoriety for his brazen, daylight tagging of a sign over the 101 Freeway and vandalism of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus, was sentenced Thursday to three years and eight months in state prison.” Besides Yazdani will have to pay $117,196 in restitution.
1. If you are involved in some way in social networking, you have to be very precise with your terms of service (TOS).
2. People are different and they see the same things in various courses. So, you must write with black on white, what are offering exactly and what do you services mean, if you want to avoid future misapprehensions with the users.
3. Please, update your TOS as frequently as it is needed, because the world and meaning of things change fast.
1. It becomes absolutely clear for everyone: with social networking your life is being recorded from the moment you create your account.
2. Even President Barack Obama warns (or just states?) about it. Asked by a student how to become President someday, Obama expressed an important message about Facebook: “I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook (Facebook), because in the YouTube (YouTube) age whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life. That’s number one,” he said, according to Bloomberg.
3. Without a doubt, Obama has very good advisors in social networking field, because he touches the essence of it.
Ringtone of the year 2009 is a ringtone of quacking duck. It interrupted Obama’s press conference. It is hard to hear it in the video, but it catched President’s atention:
Do Stuff for Money is a new website from PayPal. You have to know someone’s name, whom you want to offer to do something, write the price and mention what this person has to do. Then PayPal sends an offer by email or vis Facebook. Have a look at recent offerings:
In social media if You are alone You are nothing. Everything is made by community. Even inventions and their realization is made by society! Quirky proofs that.
Jason Keath came to an interesting association in his blog. “It is truly amazing to watch, and as others have said, a great metaphor of social media and viral marketing.
The lesson? Be remarkable and passionate about what you do. If it is genuine, others will watch, some will join in, and the movement will grow.”
Sometimes addiction to social networking and mobile technologies becomes a dangerous illness, which shows itself in mysterious ways. It is hard to predict exact consequences, but the facts are quite negatively impressive.
1. If you are involved in some way in social networking, you have to be very precise with your terms of service (TOS).
1. It becomes absolutely clear for everyone: with social networking your life is being recorded from the moment you create your account.
