Stephen Pickering

"I totally understand where you're coming from. I've always thought from the beginning that Social Media would be like extensions of one's main site. In the 90's I ran a physical store. We ran ads in the local paper. So I thought of it like that: My website was my "store" and Twitter, Facebook, et al were like the newspaper. I still think it's a good metaphor, but in reality, I've found my self more and more posting things I would normally have posted on my blog, simply to these sites, so like you say, more and more value pumping into these sites, instead of my own. And when you really feel the pain is when you try to search for something you wrote or bookmarked on one of these sites. That's when you really feel naked. And sort of like a fool. I remember years ago reading Joseph Campbell saying something about "the imprisonment of the 'now'" and how one of the challenges of life was avoiding that. Boy, do these services seem to deify the "now"! I'm afraid it's causing life to lose much..." - Stephen Pickering