Maybe I am just too business minded. Maybe I have a stint in my brain that separates business + personal life. Maybe I associate the business side with 'getting something done' (being 'productive'), and the personal side I associate with NOT getting things done. When I am trying to get something done, I must focus. I must avoid interruptions. I must wear my business 'hat.'
I try and I try -- but I just do not get social mrktng...
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Maybe I am just too business minded. Maybe I have a stint in my brain that separates business + personal life. Maybe I associate the business side with 'getting something done' (being 'productive'), and the personal side I associate with NOT getting things done.
When I am trying to get something done, I must focus. I must avoid interruptions. I must wear my business 'hat.'
Then there's facebook, myspace, twitter. Now, I admit, I am NOT a social creature at all. But, I must say, when I see the social networking sites, the only word that comes to mind is PUB.
And I am definitely NOT a pub kinda guy.
When twitter first came out, the explanation was -- 'it fills in all the "in-betweens" between emails' -- my immediate thought was, "OH GREAT, now I gotta be updated on what people are doing BETWEEN their emails to me?!?"
Are you kidding me?
I'm trying to get something done -- trying to focus -- trying like hell to AVOID contemplating my own navel -- now I'm gonna try to contemplate the navels of OTHERS?!?
You have to be kidding me.
That is exactly what I am doing my darndest to AVOID, no?
It is the pure-bred, ultimate, ANTI-getting-something-done.
Yes, I see that you need other people to get something done -- and expand your network, and all of that. I dunno -- for me, there are friends + family -- then there are business associates -- then there are potential customers. To me, those all seem like SEPARATE groups -- and mistaking one group for another is, well, a mistake.
Where's the productivity in taking the time to follow people -- or be followed -- on twitter?
Isn't saying, 'follow me on twitter' the exact same thing as saying, 'please let me waste your time?' Doesn't it take massive amounts of GALL to say, 'please take the time to follow what I'm doing in my life, minute-to-minute?' I'm sorry, I just don't have an ego (or ba**s) big enough to even ask someone that question.
Let's put it this way, anyone who asks ME that q, I will interpret as just that -- "Please waste your time by turning my life into a reality show that you want to watch." To which I will mentally answer -- "No thanks bozo, and by the way, you have an overrated ego for even asking that."
The whole twitter thing seems like a do-nothing, make-work, colosal waste of time -- like a new modern CB radio hobby, or something.
I dunno -- I just do not get it.
Let the pile-on begin, I guess.
-- TW
When I am trying to get something done, I must focus. I must avoid interruptions. I must wear my business 'hat.'
Then there's facebook, myspace, twitter. Now, I admit, I am NOT a social creature at all. But, I must say, when I see the social networking sites, the only word that comes to mind is PUB.
And I am definitely NOT a pub kinda guy.
When twitter first came out, the explanation was -- 'it fills in all the "in-betweens" between emails' -- my immediate thought was, "OH GREAT, now I gotta be updated on what people are doing BETWEEN their emails to me?!?"
Are you kidding me?
I'm trying to get something done -- trying to focus -- trying like hell to AVOID contemplating my own navel -- now I'm gonna try to contemplate the navels of OTHERS?!?
You have to be kidding me.
That is exactly what I am doing my darndest to AVOID, no?
It is the pure-bred, ultimate, ANTI-getting-something-done.
Yes, I see that you need other people to get something done -- and expand your network, and all of that. I dunno -- for me, there are friends + family -- then there are business associates -- then there are potential customers. To me, those all seem like SEPARATE groups -- and mistaking one group for another is, well, a mistake.
Where's the productivity in taking the time to follow people -- or be followed -- on twitter?
Isn't saying, 'follow me on twitter' the exact same thing as saying, 'please let me waste your time?' Doesn't it take massive amounts of GALL to say, 'please take the time to follow what I'm doing in my life, minute-to-minute?' I'm sorry, I just don't have an ego (or ba**s) big enough to even ask someone that question.
Let's put it this way, anyone who asks ME that q, I will interpret as just that -- "Please waste your time by turning my life into a reality show that you want to watch." To which I will mentally answer -- "No thanks bozo, and by the way, you have an overrated ego for even asking that."
The whole twitter thing seems like a do-nothing, make-work, colosal waste of time -- like a new modern CB radio hobby, or something.
I dunno -- I just do not get it.
Let the pile-on begin, I guess.
-- TW
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