I’m So F**King Important

I can be accessed anywhere, everywhere — e-mail, Instant Messanger, Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Chat, blog, mobile, text messaging, landline, LinkedIn — and often times with the click of one button. My mobile phone never sleeps and my computer is always glowing. If someone needs me, they get me. I’m so busy — so f**king important.

Welcome to the counter-productive economy where everyone’s really busy and no one’s doing shit. That is, nothing of substance.

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LinkedIn: A Brand Without A Soul

 
Let me start by saying that I want to like LinkedIn. I use it frequently and find it useful in a linear, 1.0 kinda way. LinkedIn accomplishes its basic mission of connecting professionals without the noise and distractions found on other social sites. But the brand is so vanilla, so unbelievably bland and soulless that I [...]

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How To Lose A Friend On Facebook

 
There’s a terrific article by Scott Brown in the November issue of Wired Magazine titled, “I’ll Be There 4 U”.
Brown says:
Thanks to Facebook, I never lose touch with anyone. And that, my Friend, is a problem…we’ve lost our right to lose touch….We scrawl “Friends Forever” in yearbooks, but we quietly realize, with relief, that some bonds [...]

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Rejection: Painful But Inevitable on Facebook and LinkedIn

I can still remember the first time a classmate told me he didn’t want to be my friend. It was first grade, his name was Jared, and he didn’t like the fact that my mother included my brother in our play dates. At the tender age of 7, Jared felt this was an unnecessary intrusion [...]

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To ‘Tweet’ or Not to ‘Tweet’

I’m beginning to think we’ve hit a new low in the interactive business but I’m willing to be convinced otherwise. Twittering is all the rage and I’m still not sure why. I’ve never considered myself an early-adopter of anything; however, I’m also far from a luddite.
Alright, so I was late to the blogging movement and [...]

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