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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, April 27, 2009 - 9:26 pm
I was just reading this article, Why You Have to Engage in Social Media Even If You Don't Want To, and I know there's been a wave of TVCH participation in Facebook and Twitter as of late, and just wanted to post what I think it is a GREAT article, for many reasons. First, for those here who are in business, it is something you should read if you want that business stimulated. Second, for those who don't really understand this whole crazy world of social media, it does a good job of breaking it down into analogies from other generations. While the article is quite business related, I just felt like posting it, for those who may be skeptical about social media, or may think it's a trend that isn't worth embracing or learning about. The article compares 'social media' to 'the internet' in that eventually, you HAD to embrace the internet, and now, look how much enjoyment and utility you draw from it. I don't want to discourage people from posting in the more specific Facebook or Twitter threads. I just posted this article for its more general nature in the hope of drumming up discussion. Anyways, I'd love to hear what anyone/everyone thinks about this article, or social media in general. Do you like it? Hate it? Find a use for it? :-)
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 5:25 am
I'm finding it fascinating! For example in twitter, you can watch conversations between different celebrities. They aren't written by reporters, but they come from the actual person.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 10:10 am
LOL, I had no trouble understanding any of it, but I do pick and choose where to participate.. there still are interesting real life people out there.. had lunch with three of them yesterday and I had the only cell phone (turned off) in the bunch, no ipods, just interesting conversation and good food. But I did manage to tweet from my kindle, so that was fun.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 11:01 am
I was have to laugh when people say that by engaging with people on the internet it's somehow less than real life relationships. My very best friend in the whole world is someone that I met on this website, and I wouldn't trade her for anyone. I am closer to her than most of my relatives, and yet we've never "met". I have a variety of interests, many of which do not interest the people who live in proximity to me. Twitter and tvclubhouse are ways in which I engage with like minded folks. They are havens for those of us who might be considered "Odd ducks" because we think "differently" from those in our immediate community. It's awesome to find we aren't so "odd" after all! And best of all, we are not alone. The big thing for me is time. It's all on my own time. Whether that's a matter of minutes or hours, I control it. Every day, or once a week, I can control it. I can make a 15 second tweet, rather than a 20 minute phone call. Still engaged...but not a lot of time used. Love it.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 11:31 am
Shame on you, Seamonkey, tweeting from your kindle. I hope you apologized.

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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 12:54 pm
I just have to be impressed with the ingenuity that many businesses and individuals have, for creating new uses for the internet medium. The intensely social an instant nature of the internet is a powerful thing, in that we hear about news sooner, there is very little censorship, everyone's story gets told, and to everyone who wants to listen. People can organize rallies, protests, etc. People band together quickly and get major companies to change their policies, when in the past, the time lag and lack of proximity to others would have almost prevented it. Look at the Facebook debacle when they changed their terms of service; so many people got so mad, and posted all over the internet, that others who weren't aware of the change BECAME aware and got mad too, and it snowballed, until Facebook had to back down and change their Terms of Service back.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 1:07 pm
I agree it is very impressive. I don't like to be negative but the downside though is there is an awful lot of inaccurate information that gets shared out there. Now of course there always was inaccurate information - the Internet just allows people to spread it around faster. So as always it is kind of a buyer beware thing.
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