Sure, now he tells us...
Heavy Twitter users should walk away from their computers and other mobile devices and stop staring at tweets all day because it’s bad for you. That was essentially the message delivered by Twitter co-founder Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone on Wednesday.I have successfully resisted the urge to purchase a smartphone or any other kind of mobile device that gives me easy access to connect as I've watched too many people out on the town sitting at a table with a loved one or filled with friends, totally absorbed with their little phones. I fear becoming one of "them," tapping away while life zips by around them. Why even be there?
It’s not the eye strain, neck strain or other physical ailments that Biz Stone is worried about but rather the fact that people will waste their entire day constantly reading tweets.
I need my offline time just as much if not more than my online time, thank you very much. So for now, I just shake my head and sort of feel sad for these kinds of folks who can't seem to just step away.
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Social media has become a social plague. Every event has to be tweeted, foursquared, or facebooked, or whatever the latest new social media craze is. Why? Somehow people started believing that everybody else cared when nobody ever did. If it's great, write a synopsis after the fact or a video. This would help reduce the sheer amount of garbage data that's being transmitted.
Find a social media expert regularly lecturing on the importance of self-discipline or etiquette when using social media socially and I would be amazed. Smartphones have changed the way people interact, and not for the better.
The core technologies can be good. But they're abused by the person with the smartphone. And why on earth it's legal for people to talk or text on a smartphone while operating a moving vehicle (hundreds or thousands of pounds of force) is beyond me.
Make watching a non-skippable video on social etiquette and moderating your usage the first thing a user sees when they turn on their brand new smart phone. Something they have to watch like clicking off on a EULA before using the product.
It's just truly become a social plague.
Rick, too... I think if you're reluctant to get one because of the features, you'll be just as reluctant once you have the one.
I upgraded to a smartphone last year with internet, email, all of the social media tools. The big touch screen. I don't keep my face buried in it. I use the tech/media tools pretty moderately, even though my entire business is online.
I think you would appreciate the usability benefits that a smartphone has to offer. I'd honestly consider it.
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