Getting sick of social media
It might be just me, but I’m starting to feel like the market is a bit saturated with social media at the moment. Everytime I want to do something, there’s multiple applications available on my phone where I can update everyone. For example:
- What am I currently doing? Twitter or Facebook
- What music am I listening to? GetGlue, Last.fm, Ping
- What am I watching on tv? GetGlue, Miso
- Where am I? Gowalla, FourSquare
- What did I just do on the toilet?
Ok, so I don’t have an app for the last one, but I’m sure (and as Apple constantly reminds us) “there’s an app for that”.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the interaction and sharing of it all. I would probably be the best unppaid twitter saleswoman alive (and if you’re interested in following me, my nickname is @kelsbells, oops – back to my post). Without twitter, I wouldn’t have met a number of amazing people I now call my friends, nor would I have been able to follow my sister’s recovery progress when she was involved in an accident. So it’s not a case of not seeing the benefits of each network, I do.
Perhaps my issue is that in this day and age there’s no “one” place to go to. If I want to see what my friends are listening to, or watching, or where they’re eating, I have to figure out what the latest app is that they’re updating. If I don’t stay up-to-date and use the same app as everyone else, then the whole existence of the social network is redundent isn’t it?
Have we reached a point where we have to ask ourselves:
What social media network is in fashion this week?
I was never one to follow a fad. Perhaps my problem is that I feel like I have to follow the crowd to get the information I desire? I don’t like this feeling.
