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Yesterday, I asked where the sex, drugs and rock & roll are in social media. Nobody else knows either, but two of your responses may explain why we can’t find any of it in the first place. First, RiftFisher said: “narcotics, alcohol, sex, criminality and backstabbing” are (arguably) not fun activities to do alone. You [...]
Last week, Chris Brogan wrote two satirical posts about becoming a “social media expert.” But the resultant traffic bump — and the reactions from people who couldn’t tell it was satire — alarmed him into (temporarily) promising to never be ironic again. Elsewhere on the web, Sue Walsh at Gadgetell reported on PayPal’s recent “non-announcement” [...]
Social Media Needs Backbone
Last week, I Twittered that a tar truck was idling on my street, leaking fumes into everyone’s home while the driver sat on his buddy’s stoop and chatted for at least 20 minutes. Fellow Twitter user Ben Atlas (who’s been very anti-social media lately*) asked if it wouldn’t have been more productive for me to [...]
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