This entire post started when I had spent several hours trolling multiple social networking sites and came across this post from G+.
Are you a Facebook flunky, a LinkedIn loser (sorry +John Mark Troyer ), a Twitter twit, or a Google geek? Or perhaps you're into one of the other seemingly 20 other apps, gadgets or web sites that NEED our attention. I actually took a week off from what I'd call "active social time". To understand what I did, we'd need to define such a feat. I define "active social time" as sitting in front of my screen of my choice, whether that's a computer, tablet or phone. (let's not discuss a phablet at this time) Of course I would have the occasional post from my wife or one of my children saying that they did this or liked this, and I would look at it, like it and move on. I'm talking about actively engaging in watching the screen. I actually spent some time earlier this year with Google+ and Tweetdeck (twitter) open all the time and "watched the streams". But for that one week, I left both alone and sat in darkness. Was it difficult? At first it was. I actually caught myself reaching for my phone and decided to put it back down even though it felt weird to do so.
After a week did I jump back on and go nuts trying to catch up on everything? I think that would have been impossible at best. Did I miss anything important? I suppose I'll never really know.
What about you? What feed source do you follow?
