Whats the buzz?

I don’t know anything about social media apart from visiting some mediacamps.

I don’t have a website and I have never blogged in my life. Yeah can you imagine!!!

My academic background is mainly sociology but I wouldn’t call myself a sociologist in the pure sense. I have a PhD on hold and so it has been for a couple of years. My main professional career has been consultancy in project management. I am also a sound engineer and musician on a semi-professional level.

I am on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Secondlife etc. but I never use them. I can’t find the point to use them. I have been surfing around last week to check so-called social media freaks sites. They have a new blog almost every day but do I find any comments on their blogs?  No, not very often.

Are all this people sitting and writing stuff for themselves?

I went past an Internet cafe the other day and saw about a hundred people sitting in nice aligned rows silent checking, writing in their so-called “social networks”.

Shouldn’t it be called asocial media or anti-social media?

Don’t get me wrong. I am interested to plug in to this “world”.

What have missed?

What is the big news everybody is yelling about in these communities or on their blogs?

Has really something changed since the quote from Frank Zappa?

“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows”.

Please give me comments on this one. I want to hear your thoughts around it. If you can explain to me and get me on the boat we could probably get a lot of more people on board.

Ok now I have to go and feed my goldfish (maybe I should write that on Twitter so everybody knows…).

June 27, 2008 | Filed Under Kristian Eliasson | 6 Comments