You’ll remember the conversation but not the broadcast… #agchat #ag #farm #ag4all
This short article resonated with me… Are we broadcasting too much? Are we really stopping to listen? Do we have too many people in our in box and “friend” list?
At times I feel we discover all this new info and we just have to share it. Then more new stuff comes along and we need to share that too. Add new friends, follow more people, discover more stuff. And again and again… But what happened to the first wave of interesting information? Were there some conversations we missed in the rush to get that next press release out?
If we really don’t stop and listen then we miss the complaints, compliments, and the funny stories. If we miss the conversations then we miss the opportunities. If we don’t stop to listen then we miss out on the community around that conversation.
As Clive Thompson says in article below, “Sure, we’d be connected with fewer people, but we’d be communicating with them, and not just talking at them.”
Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity
When it comes to your social network, bigger is better. Or so we’re told. The more followers and friends you have, the more awesome and important you are. That’s why you see so much oohing and aahing over people with a million Twitter followers. But lately I’ve been thinking about the downside of having a huge online audience. When you go from having a few hundred Twitter followers to ten thousand, something unexpected happens: Social networking starts to break down.
The lesson? There’s value in obscurity.
Maybe we should be designing tools that reward obscurity — that encourage us to remain in the shadows. Or what if they warned us when our social circles became unsustainably large? Sure, we’d be connected with fewer people, but we’d be communicating with them, and not just talking at them.
Read more at www.wired.com
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great perspective RT @TruffleMedia You’ll remember the conversation but not the broadcast… http://amplify.com/u/1sc5
1 month agoRight as always. I’ve noted that I tend to be more successful in having a “conversation” when folks reply to something I’ve written, but that I have a harder time keeping up with responding to other folks’ material as my “social network” continues to grow…
1 month agoMy favorite snippet was “…when the conversation gets big enough, it shuts down. Not only do audiences feel estranged, the participants also start self-censoring.” And that just isn’t communication, is it?
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