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Will social media kill off the intranet in years to come?

The way we communicate and share information is changing faster than ever before, there are more means of conversation and networks within which we can tap into than Sir Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the internet, could ever have dreamed of, while the lines between work and play have been forever blurred. There’s no going back. Only forwards. Take Michael Jackson’s tragic early death… confirmation of his demise, followed by dozens of celebrity 140 character-long obituaries had hit Twitter before any other media organization had time to react.

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Social Media Guilt

I’m supposed to be Twittering and Facebooking and MySpacing and emailing and blogging, but I can’t take it anymore!!

I’ve hooked up my cell phone to the Internet so I can send pictures to my blog(s) and be notified when people mention my name and get beeped when my cellphone bill is due or when my bank account runs low.

I’ve got 6 email accounts that all funnel into my gmail and I spend every night trying to unravel the threads and replies, deleting the log files I send myself and re-posting the reminders I get from my calendar.

I’ve got terminal windows open to three computers at any time and I’m having a hard time trying to keep them straight.  (I like to shell from one account to the other in the same window – I expect to snap into another dimension one of these days)

I’ve received invites to take quizzes, accept badges, support causes and go to events from people I don’t even know, yet I’m afraid to hurt anyone’s feelings by ignoring them (not true – I recently declared amnesty and deleted them all.  That lasted like 5 minutes.  I drowning again.)

I’m writing all this cause I signed up for yet another social media aggregation site/service.  Chi.mp allows you to collect all your social media sites into one huge mess and select which ‘persona’ you want to show to the public, your friends or your work. Want to post that picture of you writing ‘I heart dogs’ on the forehead of your passed out friend with the sharpie marker, but would rather your boss not see the picture? Make it available on your ‘friends’ persona. Wanna post your resume, but not let your friends know about that summer you worked shoveling elephant crap? Post it on your ‘work’ persona.

Sound interesting? Yeah, I though so too. But now I’m not so sure. I’ve got too much going on right now. So maybe I’ll revisit Chi.mp later.

Later tonight, that is.

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