Martin Koss – thinking out loud…
I don't mean to be so opinionated and argumentative, it's just me…
Have We All Become Gossiping Grannies
If what we’re seeing today is the future – someone shoot me now, please. Put me in a plywood box, hit play on ‘Wish You Were Here’ and send my splintered butt down the conveyor belt…
What on earth happened over the past 15 years to make us all turn into gossiping old grannies who sit around telling the world what happened to someone else, to spend our lives name-dropping and spilling the beans… Beans, that were, a few years ago, uninteresting and remain so – but for some odd reason that I can’t fathom out, all of a sudden the world is sharing the gossip and we’re all listening – well – not me – not exactly.
I personally think there are far too many extremely sad people out there with far too much time on their hands and far too much income generated from Adsense ads on their website gossip column. They simply can’t be bothered to create anything original – spending all their time regurgitating, retweeting, reposting, re-status-updating, reblogging…
Blah blah blah blah friggin blah.
Who actually reads all this stuff the 700th time it is blogged or retweeted?
Who cares that Sarah Palin had a post deleted by Facebook? Nice publicity stunt, though. And do we really need to hear – for the 400th time – what CB said on his blog last week?
How many more millions of blog posts about Facebook privacy will become bandwidth fodder before we’re all sick and tired of hearing about it?
I’m sure Chris likes the publicity but he must get a bit fed up of seeing his name used purely for the retweet value – though it adds no value to the post it was used in.
Flipping heck people, get a life and move on. There’s more to life – seriously. Ask around. There are millions of people getting on with real stuff that is actually quite interesting. Try having a real conversation once in a while, you may actually find that no-one is actually that bothered about how many users Facebook has or what Zucker – whatever his name is – said at whatever conference last week.
People are already speculating about the possibility of Facebook reaching 1 billion users. OMG! If it ever happens it is most likely many years away but I suppose – if it brings clickers in who might click on some 50p ads then it’s worth some screen space – even though it has virtually zero relevance to how we use Facebook in 2010.
But, fortunately, thanks to petty news snippets, I have been reliably informed that Coke is, in fact, more popular than Pepsi… Thanks to someone who clearly has not enough action in their life – they blogged to my rescue about some advertising data that has resolved my life long mystery about coke and pepsi.
I feel so enlightened. Thanks lifeless person who took the time to write that.
Oh yeah – and thanks to the person who kindly just regurgitated Chris’ months old blog post “The 10 Worst Social Media Mistakes” – I was waiting for that to raise it’s head again. I can relax now. That blog post is how old, exactly?
Is this the enlightened path to the future? Oh please. Change the record.
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6 Responses to Have We All Become Gossiping Grannies
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But Martin it's too hard to be original man! All you have to do these days to get attention is use a 'top blogger's name and bingo you're in. One of the cool kids with the right colour lunchbox and everything! Or use the f word or c word liberally throughout your blog post. That appears to be the other thing all the cool kids are doing to get attention. Sigh. At least we can count on you being original. Tell us more about your career history if you can…there can't be too many people around who've been there seen that in social media over the past ten years. Love your message and how you keep it real. Vx
Phew! I'm pleased to see some great comments in response to my extremely random post. Thank you Vicki for your input – pleased to see that you've spotted the over-use of 'name dropping' that so many bloggists do in order to draw attention to their 'work' (work – erm – maybe I should find a more suitable word). I mention various 'celeb' blog writers now and then, but I prefer to just use their initials, like 'CB' (you probably know who that is), so not to play the name dropping game.
There are some people, yourself included Vicki, who write brand new stuff every time they tap away at the qwerty but, considering the billions of pages out there – you'd think there'd be a heck of a lot of original and interesting content.
Thanks again for your thoughts, and compliments. I'll do my bestest to keep it all original, totally random and, above all, REAL.
Ahh, but the beauty of the internet, surely, is that we can ignoring all these unoriginal, uninteresting posts, vote with our time and just not read. It is a shame though that these dullards pollute and dilute the internet making the really interesting people so much harder to find.
Well said Martin!! I'd much rather see authentic, thought provoking, home grown posts than yet another recycle of what all the “biggies” are saying.
Excellent way of putting it. Great input. Thank you.
Thank you, as always, Lori.