I’ve been around this online game for a long, long time. I started designing web sites back in 1996, for fun, then decided to make a career of it. 10 years later I was neck deep in the early days of blogging and Twitter and a plethora of other fledgling social networks (Plurk, anyone?). I’ve seen a lot of things come and go since then, the good, the bad and the ugly…and I wouldn’t trade any of it.
The world is a dramatically different place now, but has the online world really changed that much? Sure, there are more networks now and WAY more people on those networks, but I wonder, can we still reap the benefits of using social media even with all the online clutter that exists now? Let’s break it down.
Noise to Signal
The amount of noise social media makes is deafening, there is no doubt about that. So how do we break through that noise, so that we’re getting the signal we want? It is for sure more difficult now that it used to be, but it IS possible. It just takes time and careful curation. Social media is, after all, still a choose your own adventure game. On Twitter, you can mute keywords, hashtags and entire accounts. It’s how I cleaned my Twitter feed of any and all mentions of a certain President. And what a blissful place Twitter is now!
On Facebook, you can unfollow, leave Groups, unlike Pages, and even unfriend, until your feed is what you need it to be. Facebook can be a wonderful place if you get in there and clean it up once in a while.
The trick is to decide how YOU want to use social media, and then curate your feeds until they suit you. Yes, there’s a lot of noise out there, but you can drown it out. Trust me.
Micro-Connections
Social media has always been considered a “Many to Many” form of communication – meaning everyone is talking to everyone. But it’s in the micro-connections we make that the real gold of social media lies. What’s a micro-connection? It’s those small interactions we have with people…it may be a single tweet that gets a single reply. It may be a comment on a blog post, or in a chat forum. It’s that small connection you make with other people as you go about your day. Often they are strangers. Sometimes they are people you’ve never met who gradually, through these tiny interactions, become friends (I’m looking at you Mark Dykeman!).
Micro-connections are what makes the social media world go ’round. It’s the phenomena of small interactions with people from far away (or even close by) that makes us all feel connected to each other; whole. It’s how, when an event happens in the world, we all come together to encourage, support, grieve, and commiserate. It’s that feeling you get when you open up your phone, and see your friends, even for just a simple “hello”. Micro-connections enrich our lives, by allowing us to drop in and out of the lives of those around and make real connections that can last a lifetime.
Sure, there’s a lot that is different now with social media than say, 10 years ago, but has it really changed all that much? By curating your feeds carefully, and focusing on those micro-connections, you too can relive the glory days of social.
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Call it what it is
GENOCIDE
How many Palestinians have been killed by Israel?
More than 55,900 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct. 7 -Palestinian health minister. RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 5 (Reuters) – More than 55,900 Palestinians, including 250 health workers, have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of war on Oct. 7, %50 are childers.
see why Israel can kill innocent children with American taxpayer money
1- see Why Israel is in deep trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfIYtpcBxo
2- Because the God of Money of our World is a Jew who supports and lives in Israel. For more details, click on the following link.
https://mega.nz/file/FqhzGKbB#bsX4PD-O59HEA0-rynD29xkk47dmddycY5CjZfoDLYg
3- Because what USA president say about Israel https://www.tiktok.com/@thefearlessqueenmel/video/7307640994579680542?lang=en&q=why%20dont%20Americans%20knowl%20what%20you%20have%20seen%20&t=1701880206555
See how innocent children are killed by the most powerful Israeli using American bombs at
Al Jazeera Arabic Live
at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyUyrR0PHo
if you do not do something such as going on the street and telling your government which is controlled by the Jews to stop killing the Gaza people and stop the Israeli War and send food to the starving people of Gaza. If you can not do it then forward this message with the above two links to at least 4 of your friends and ask them to forward it to 4 of their friends so that the world will know that the new mass murderers are the Jews of the world . It is ironic that the Holocaust servicers (the Jews) are creating a new Holocaust against the Philistines in Gaza.
if you do not do this also then you do not have a HART
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Your explanation is very clear and to the pointβthanks!
I constantly hear friends and family complain about how much objectionable crap comes up on their Facebook feeds, and I keep telling them they have the power to clean it up! On the other hand, I wonder if this practice leads to that “echo chamber” phenomenon in social media?
Also, I need to work on my micro-connections. π