Tag: social-media

Antisocial Media

My beloved and I went out to dinner tonight. While we were in the car we heard a BBC story on NPR about a guy who wrote a book on the premise that the Romans invented social media. We had some good laughs at the story’s expense.

Then I realized something. If social media is the passing of news among a network of friends and family, what do you call it if you try to pass news but don’t have any friends? Antisocial Media! I have coined a phrase! Then I thought more, what if you make use of social media but no one reads what you share… kinda like this bloggie right here.

Holy Crap! I not only coined the phrase, but with all of my blogging I actually invented the very thing described by the phrase I coined!

I invented Antisocial Media!

Facebook Graph Search

I like Facebook’s Timeline.  Now I’m looking forward to this.

However…

Facebook users, prepare for the onslaught of hate!  Prepare for weeks upon weeks of news feeds flooded with bitching and moaning and “I want the old Facebook back!”

Do any of the people who were furious three or four revisions ago honestly still wish they had the old format back?  I doubt it.  Timeline is cool.  Graph Search could be cool too.  It might suck to the high heaven, but it might be cool.

Let’s face it, the minute Facebook stops evolving it becomes Myspace.  Speak up if you want that.  >insert sound of crickets chirping here<

Change is good, people.  Embrace the new.