What's the next latest and greatest social media outlet? I'm kind of over Google+.
Fast zombies or slow zombies?
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I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend.
I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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No but seriously, you mean you could imagine something new better that G+? What is it about G+ that you feel is missing? (kinda curious) :)
Zeb McClure, Meh... I was just hoping something better had come along. I've been spending a lot more time on LinkedIN lately, but it has a focused purpose outside of "social."
Andrew Maxwell, I belong to a handful of communities and have even left a few because the members were too ideological in their opinions. For example, an atheist community that spent more time bashing religion rather than talking about items of interest to atheists. Photography communities that are dogmatic in their approach to photography to the point where they ostracize new photographers. And so on... I could start my own communities (which I have) but then I have to moderate and stuff.
Michael Dubnik, a couple of weeks ago this psycho-feminist came after me for daring to disagree with her. She then went on to create something like 5 posts to talk about me without the courtesy of tagging me into the conversation to defend my point of view. I found some of them, commented and would immediately have my comments deleted.
She controlled the conversation, much like Bill O'Reilly does, by shutting the opposing opinion down.
Then she called on all of her followers to hate me based on her say so and I would see them talking about me, on her posts, without me having a chance to clarify or bring fact into the discussion.
Rob Gordon was recently the target of character assassination as well. I'm unsure of the details of the attacks against his person, but it was enough that it bothered him.
Just a bit earlier, I saw a woman deleting comments on one of her posts because they disagreed with her premise. The offending comments? They questioned her thesis. That's all. Every comment was courteous and respectful. When he kept commenting she threatened banishment.
I've seen a lot of that, as well. This is my space and I can have it the way I want it.
I believe we all have a right to speak. I believe diversity is a blessing to be embraced, not a condition to be circumcised. I believe without a clear exchange of ideas we never would have grown as a people and a culture.
Where once Google+ was a place for those exchanges, I see small minded people behaving in a manner that tarnishes the experience for us all. It makes me not want to log in, not want to check notifications and not want to participate anymore. If you've noticed, I've been fairly absent from g+ for the past couple of weeks because it seems more like a chore to be involved than to be off line.
Why don't I just remove such people form my Circles?
I get asked that a lot. Unfortunately, there are a couple of reasons:
1- the aforementioned desire to have diversity of ideas, opinions and backgrounds in my Stream.
2- Some of these people are Buzzers (such as the woman who deleted commented she didn't like) and a personal rule of mine is not to remove Buzzers. It may be time to reassess that rule, but without some sort of discipline in our lives what stops us from justifying anything?
There are a lot of people I have Circled and while many of them aren't people I want to engage with daily, they provide a wide range of content, ideas and opinions that I wouldn't normally come across if I curated my Circles more.
Maybe I hold people to a higher standard than they hold themsevles. I mean, I've thought about deleting this account altogether and starting over, but I haven't.