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.”

3. Twitter and FriendFeed were constantly updated.

4. “I also let my Facebook friends know that a baby was on the way. That made sure I got as many people to know something was about to happen as possible.”

5. Finally an iPhone is used to capture an image and to post it across all possible platforms. The screen was monitoring reactions from all over the world. (You are checking reactions, not your baby?..)

6. SLR and 5D MKII were used also.

7. Back to the iPhone and here he made a first image of newly born kid.

8. Flickr was involved immediately for uploading fresh photos.

9. And the finish: audio recording feature on iPhone captured the first cry of the baby and then it was uploaded via email to FriendFeed.

10. Thats all. Sorry, I can not analyse this social networking ceremony. I leave it just as it is. Make your own conclusions.

Even this odd action of Robert Scoble has some good insights about absorbing information in various types of social media. Explore them.

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.

What forces people uploading and posting material discreditable themselves? It is a kind of difficult question. Possible answers and conclusions:

1. To be a famous guy just for a few days becomes more important than whole future of one’s life.

2. Social media is open and nude. You can not hide your personality.

3. Be active social media user only if you are responsible of your behaviour 100%. If you are a kind of sceptic and critical according to society and if you feel a strong tendence to make revolutionary affairs, stay from social media as far as you can.

4. Do not forget, that the same laws and rights that work in real life, stand for people in the internet either.

5. Study publicity reactions and social sciences to understand better, what you can say to a crowd and what must be saved in a small box.

6. Social media is like talking to audience. There are many people in it. People have different habits, opinions, outlooks. They were born in different countries, believe in different gods and all of them need the only thing – respect.

Watch the video which had not to be published:

Paulius Sluškonis

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.

4. Here is an example. Today Twitter anounced its update of TOS. Here are the main points, highlighted in their blog post:

“Advertising—In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising. We’d like to keep our options open as we’ve said before.

Ownership—Twitter is allowed to “use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute” your tweets because that’s what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you.

APIs—The apps that have grown around the Twitter platform are flourishing and adding value to the ecosystem. You authorize us to make content available via our APIs. We’re also working on guidelines for use of the API.

SPAM—Abusive behavior and spam is also outlined in these terms according to the rules we’ve been operating under for some time.”

Paulius Sluškonis

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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.

4. If you have a few serious plans for future (who does not?), you must be very careful communicating on the internet. Because everything you say, everything you do, everything you share etc. is being recorded in the history – for example – of the wall in Facebook.

5. And all this pretty long record becomes a better CV than any other which you’ll create someday by yourself.

6. The question is: how to became a responsible and earnest man, who does not tweet silly and stupid things, from the early days of your life?

Greg Gunberg (star of “Heroes”) talks about his social media projects:

Paulius

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:

Jonas

Some time ago it was just a joke:

Now it becomes quite a real idea. As says Mashable, “The sites are becoming increasingly intertwined, with YouTube now automatically posting videos to Twitter, and Facebook now moving towards public updates, “followers” and a realtime search engine.” Brian Kay, the owner of  YouTwitFace.com, thinks about idea to make some kind of a complex media website according to WSJ.

Paulius

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:

Jonas

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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.

Jonas

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.”

Paulius