*cue ominous music* It’s been a week since I went dark. In today’s post, find out how one semi-neurotic really feels about not being on Twitter and Facebook. DOM DOM DOM. Okay, so today I really wanted to log in. After writing my thank you letter to OddCon, I wanted to pop in and add […]
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Day 5 of 100: Social Media is More Than Noise
Well, it’s the fifth day now since I’ve started this one-hundred day blackout, and already I can tell that this experiment wasn’t as simple as “tuning out the noise.” What I found, through the course of dealing with a bunch of snafus, is that I’ve been relying on these tools to resolve problems. For some […]
Day 4 of 100: Crowdsourcing Versus Experts
Found myself needing advice today, and mentally ran through my cyber-deck of experts to see who I could e-mail about a few things. In the time that I spent explaining what I wanted in an e-mail, I could have ran to Twitter and said: “Hey, anyone know of…” or “Anyone have a link for…” Instead, […]
Day 3 of 100: When Systems Fail
Of course, right after I go dark on social media, my webhost starts having problems. For the past couple of days, service has been spotty, which has no doubt affected your ability to read the posts I’ve been writing. It’s even more frustrating on my end because I didn’t want to get back on Facebook/Twitter […]
Day 2 of 100: On News and Sharing Links
I’ve always known intellectually that it’s easier to share links through social media, but I had no idea how quickly that would impact me.
Last night, we had some friends over and they had mentioned this article about how the app pricing model doesn’t work RPGs. Because I hadn’t been on Twitter or Facebook, I didn’t see the article.
Here’s where it got interesting for me.
In a typical day, I would have booted up Twitter or Facebook, looked it up on one of their profiles and then clicked over to the article. Since I made a pledge not to use those tools, now if I want the article I have to do one of three things: a) ask for someone to e-mail me the link b) type in the domain name of the article and manually look for it there or c) use natural search to find it.