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Isn’t it telling how we’ve shifted in our terminology over time?
What we used to call social networking has now become social media.
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High ResolutionA creepy interactive video demonstrates the downside of Facebook using… Facebook. It also demonstrates the potential of socially-enabled interactivity. “Stalkertainment” in its finest hour, folks.
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Holy God. Nightmares tonight. I can’t finish watching this.
*Going to slap a trigger warning here just in case.
(via ajeebdastan)
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Promoting Your Writing || HuffPost Books
There’s a big difference between self -promotion and promoting yourself as a writer.
Self-promotion is the guy at the party who keeps trying to impress chicks with his gnarly hot rod and mullet (never mind that he thinks it’s the 1980s). Self-promotion is the high school football player who’s willing to rough up some nerds to help his campaign to be prom king. Self-promotion is that lady at work who won’t stop talking about how much harder she works than everyone else and how awesome she is.
But you are not promoting yourself—in a sense. When you create a social media and Internet presence, you create a persona—whether you mean to or not. That persona is not you. It’s a representation of you (your brand). And your brand is just the “face” of your product. And your product is your writing. And that’s what you’re promoting.
READ MORE: The Eleven Deadly Sins Of Online Promotion For Writers
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"It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie conducted in cyberspace isn’t a valuable form of social contact, but, say, being thrown together at an NCT group, or in halls of residence, or because your desks at work face on to each other, is. Or that anodyne small talk with a neighbour is ‘genuine social stimulation,’ whereas chatting over Twitter with someone 6,000 miles away who loves Top Gun and Jefferson Airplane as much as you do is just lonely, dysfunctional nerds clashing in cyberspace. This, to my mind, is idiotic. It’s time for us all to come out of the closet about our secret internet chums."
- Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter(Source: pitcherplant, via hanuueshe)
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Fashionista rips at tumblr. I can’t help but agree on some of the points.
God. This is absurd. It’s weird to think about all these things happening behind the scenes, but it’s just the latest in a long chain of events. If Tumblr was a country, I would be predicting an almost Egypt-style uprising sometime soon. It’s not a country but I still predict something big. There’s the Tumblr Blackout, of course, but something more than that…we are not happy. Nobody is happy with Tumblr anymore. It’s been a slow build-up ever since the last dashboard change, even though that’s not the discontent cuts deeper than that: the threat of ads, restrictions in asks, eliminating all unfollower-counters like Missing E, etc. I’m especially disappointed by the way Tumblr dealt with Missing E; instead of hiring the creator or buying it or integrating with it, they killed it, instantly incensing a huge majority of their users.
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“Internet vices” by Patrick Moberg. If social media sites were drugs. Click through for close-up humor.
I’ve been drug-free for 16 years, but this makes me want to take a hit again.I’m a complete drug virgin, unless Tylenol counts (maybe LinkedIn is Tylenol? Or Craigslist? But that gets kills people, hmm…), but seems like Mr. Moberg hit the nail on the head. -
(Source: someecards.com)
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The Goods: 12 Insanely Cool Resume That Landed Interviews
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Very very interesting video about the Social Media Revolution. A must see. Amazing how social media is changing the world, our relationships, business and our lives in such a fast pace. Good or Bad?
do i dare disturb the universe?
