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Re: Take time out - gain perspective.

Maria Reyes-McDavis — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:01:53 -0000

Great post! Your points are exactly why, I'm only connected during certain times of the day and week -- it's just too much and often times you can feel overwhelmed and lose touch with the "social" in social media.

Maria Reyes-McDavis

Re: Take time out - gain perspective.

colinwalker — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:26:11 -0000

Agreed - Facebook just doesn't cut it.

Yes the image was on Flickr - thanks for making it available.

Re: Take time out - gain perspective.

Natalia Osiatynska — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:36:11 -0000

Nice photo ; )

And a thought-provoking article. Incidentally, I found it when someone I know Googled me and pointed it out. Because you used—and credited; thanks!—a photo of mine which I "freed" for such purposes by assigning it a Creative Commons license. Where was it—on Flickr.

I agree with you on the importance of dialogue, particularly when it can be meaningful and purposeful. Facebook is lost on me. Flickr is changing my life. And no, the hours I've spent on it don't cut into my social life; rather, they've been time put into shaping much of it.

Thanks man, and best of luck!

Re: Take time out - gain perspective.

Joe Dawson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:00:05 -0000

I think that you have to apply an activity downtime, it renews your enthusiasm and it also refreshes your outlook. I am not half as active as most of you, neither do I attract the traffic but when I went away on holiday recently I had renewed energy! Going back to Ryan's comment on music artists and Green Day are a good example of trying to redefine themselves. I read in NME that they often undertake other projects which in turn give them the angle to produce an album they are proud to put their name to! It's all about identity and finding the common ground!!

Re: Take time out - gain perspective.

gregory — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:08:26 -0000

if you pay attention to the self, everything falls in to place perfectly.. if you pay attention to all of this stuff, catastrophe .. and doing the former, all this stuff is merely a river and not a problem

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manuscrypts — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:02:30 -0000

i think (like you've rightly said) that its a question of intent. So I'd disagree on Facebook not lending itself to meaningful conversation. Yes, its definitely not twitter like conversations, but (for example)it does help one identify other people with similar interests and open up a lot of discussions thanks to that categorising. Where the conversation goes later depends on the users, and in that sense its platform independent.....so its conversation, but of a different kind..

Re: Take time out - gain perspective.

colinwalker — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:23:26 -0000

Not at all Ryan - that is a great way to look at it.

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Ryan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:15:55 -0000

In response to your final question. I think that the reassessment is constant - and often unnoticed - just as it is in conversation. There's a fine line, however, between continuing your path when you receive no feedback and going a direction you don't believe in just to get a response/rise out of people. It's the same thing that artists and musicians have battled for ages. Not to say that we are artists of the same kind as they, but there is something to be said for the poet-esque role that we find ourselves in as it relates to this ongoing new media discovery. (Sorry if that was a bit high-minded).

Re: Take time out - gain perspective.

Julian Baldwin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:27:08 -0000