Social Media: The Bad Side

by Sarah Morgan on August 3, 2008

I’m always talking about it like it’s the second coming of Oprah and Jesus and rainbows and shoe sales – but there are a lot of big negatives about social media. And on a gorgeous sunny summer afternoon, these become glaringly obvious.

  • It feeds any and every tendency to over-multi-task.
  • It makes you jump to tell people about things even before you get a chance to experience them yourself.
  • It can make it difficult to remember who you told what to when.
  • It makes a few of my friends convinced that they have ADD when I think they – like all of us – are just reeling from the inherent unnaturalness of having so much connectivity and information available at once.
  • It gives you the frustrating feeling that you will never, ever, be up to date or finished with work.

Remember moderation. And go outside.

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1 Tracy 08.04.08 at 10:39 am

Support group to come soon?

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