The peril of being “social”

Posted: October 19th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: entrepreneurship, Ideas, Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , | 7 Comments »

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  1. 1 Tweets that mention When being social absolutely sucks | edustir -- Topsy.com said at 5:27 AM on October 19th, 2009:

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by bloghighed and Michael Stoner, schools4me. schools4me said: Ron Bronson – When being social absolutely sucks http://is.gd/4qDgZ [...]

  2. 2 Sean said at 5:34 AM on October 19th, 2009:

    Valid point.

    You have to be aware of your online profile and the information that you make available publicly.

    By the way I’ve retweeted your post.

  3. 3 Curt Grymala said at 6:59 AM on October 19th, 2009:

    The problem is that people fail to set up their own boundaries within the social networks. Most of the social networks offer the appropriate and necessary tools to filter out all of the noise, but few people use them.

  4. 4 Ron Bronson said at 9:16 AM on October 19th, 2009:

    @ Sean: Thanks for the re-tweet!
    @ Curt: You are right. People don’t really establish their purpose, but I think the problem with that, is the boundaries can become blurred quickly. While the social networks do have tools to “block out the noise,” it can not only be a lot of work to set this up, but it doesn’t always work as easily as intended. This is especially a problem for early adopters. If you’ve got several hundred Facebook friends, creating neat groups for each one of them can be onerous and even once you’ve done this, you find that it really limits the functionality of the tool to a degree once you’ve done it. It’s a conundrum to be sure.

  5. 5 uberVU - social comments said at 11:00 AM on October 19th, 2009:

    Social comments and analytics for this post…

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  6. 6 Michael Stoner said at 6:10 PM on October 19th, 2009:

    You’re so right! I’ve pretty much avoided Facebook because I have a fairly high profile online and there a lot of reasons why I don’t want masses of people knowing too much about my personal life. I’m wondering now if I can just un-friend people that I don’t really have a personal relationship with but that I was guilted into friending. Anyway, great points and thanks for the shoutout!

  7. 7 edustir | by Ron Bronson, digital practitioner said at 6:02 AM on December 5th, 2009:

    [...] The Peril of Being Social (I changed the title from “When being social sucks” heh.) I piggeybacked Michael Stoner’s term “engagement fatigue” to talk about the peril of “always being out there” and how it might affect authenticity in the long term. [...]

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