SoMe

Improbulus is correct, perhaps we all need an abbreviation which is better than SM.

I had a few tweets with her today which went as follows:

@audio you might start with thinking up an alternative abbreviation for Social Media - or is it too late? about 6 hours ago from TwitterFox in reply to audio

@improbulus I’d say Communications Technology.. because that’s all it is.. but that’s not sexy.. nothing new here really… about 5 hours ago from web in reply to improbulus

@audio actually, I meant maybe something like SocMed instead of SM??! (referring to your earlier tweet now) about 5 hours ago from TwitterFox in reply to audio

@improbulus Oh I see.. SM is too close to S&M? SocMed works. about 5 hours ago from web in reply to improbulus

improbulus @audio yes, otherwise some people might get confused! Anything else, really - SocMed was just a suggestion. about 5 hours ago from TwitterFox in reply to audio

So there you go, that is that we have now officially declared Social Media to be abbreviated to SocMed.

You may go forthwith and use SocMed, hereby defined by The Social Media Mafia.

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UPDATE: the abbreviation has now been officially reduced to the rather simple, and refreshingly more related SoMe pronounced So Me thanks to:

vanmaanen @audio SocMed is SoMe :-) 6 minutes ago from web in reply to audio

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July 28, 2008 | Filed Under Chris Hambly 

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19 Responses to “SoMe”

  1. Danacea on July 29th, 2008 3:30 am

    I’ve been using SocMed as the logical abbreviation: http://twitter.com/Danacea/statuses/851854057

    SoMe sounds - well, all about Me. And can also be read as ’some’ if the capitalisation’s off.

    Hmmmmmm - y’know I’m not sure…

  2. Danacea on July 29th, 2008 3:33 am

    Which - just realised this (sorry need another coffee) - makes it impossible to SEARCH for. Should you need to do such a thing.

  3. The Godfather on July 29th, 2008 3:36 am

    Search? Who needs search in #SoMe, Danacea?

    :)

  4. Will McInnes on July 29th, 2008 4:03 am

    SocMed sounds like something junior doctors in America do between sophomore and freshman (I know I’m getting the terms muddled but you get the idea).

    I know we’re all desperate to find a better term than social media, but why? Is it so broken? It means something, it’s understood increasingly well and it more easy to define (tho’ still not easy) than the much more pointless and meaningless ‘Web 2.0′ IMHO.

  5. tdaonp on July 29th, 2008 4:08 am

    In the search respect: the abreviation SM would make for more, ehm, interesting search results than SoMe would. Whether it’s what you’d want is another matter.

    Seriously: telephone became phone, mobile phone became mobile; why shouldn’t social media become media. Especially when most of our information that traditionally came to us via ‘old media’ like TV and radio and static websites now comes to us through social media outlets.

    Now that would be a real social mafia strike: claim the word media for social media.

  6. The Godfather on July 29th, 2008 4:16 am

    @Will

    I agree, Social Media is probably not going away, it has started to have meaning, but an abbreviation is needed, hence #SoMe, especially for the Kool club.

    The play on words of the “me” bit is also staggeringly perceptive, no?

  7. Dan Thornton on July 29th, 2008 4:22 am

    Personally we could call it ‘Bob’ as far as I’m concerned - it’s showing how it works, and where it works that I’m more concerned with!

    And there is a the problem with searching SoMe…As Will pointed out SocMed sounds like a medicare provider in the U.S…

    I’m up for inventing a new term, but only if we can stop using some of the others, and if it’s clear enough for non-social media mafioso to understand.

  8. The Godfather on July 29th, 2008 4:30 am

    @Dan

    It’s only the abbreviation we are claiming here, Social Media is not going anywhere…

    Just the abbreviation we are defining.

  9. John Carson on July 29th, 2008 9:09 am

    I like SoCiAl Media — Scam.

  10. Nicholas Butler on July 29th, 2008 9:19 am

    I love the idea and you can bet ive spent all morning trying to find the term I can abbreviate to Su Me.

  11. Shelleftr on July 29th, 2008 9:25 am

    How about MedS?

  12. Danacea on July 29th, 2008 12:58 pm

    @Nik: that would be Successful Media

    Seriously - with all the yap about ‘.me’ going on recently, if we’re sticking with this, then can we add the full stop?

    So.Me

    I still like SocMed better…

  13. The Godfather on July 30th, 2008 6:08 am

    @tdaonp hehe I do like that a lot.. maybe we should just go with:

    MEDIA

    How will you differentiate that then from say Print Media?

  14. The Godfather on July 30th, 2008 6:43 am

    @Danacea

    I like So.Me

    I think everyone here has very valid points, amazingly (cough cough) we humans all generally differ in opinion.

    I’ll write some thoughts on this “experiment” soon.

    In the mean time keep them coming, the irony and parody here is highly amusing, no?

  15. Dan Thornton on July 30th, 2008 7:30 am

    So.Me is kinda cool I guess.

    I’m still pushing for Bob.

    Or how about abbreviating these:

    Tools Of Social Service?

    Socially Helpful Internet Tools?

  16. The Godfather on July 30th, 2008 7:48 am

    @Dan

    LMAO, glad to see British Advertising still rules the world for humour.

    ;)

  17. Casey Fryda on September 11th, 2008 9:35 am

    What about so-me? That is, if we’re abandoning the “Bob” idea.

  18. The Godfather on September 11th, 2008 9:56 am

    What is “bob” idea?

  19. Casey Fryda on September 11th, 2008 12:51 pm

    Ref to Dan Thornton’s post - but in retrospect, “Guido” might be better, if SMM gets to pick!

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