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There are tens of thousands of businesses making many millions a year in profits that still haven’t ever heard of twitter, blogs or facebook. Are they all wrong? Have they missed out or is the joke really on us? They do business through personal relationships, by delivering great customer service and it’s working for them. They’re more successful than most of those businesses who spend hours pontificating about how others lose out by missing social media and the latest wave. And yet they’re doing business. Great business. Not writing about it. Doing it.
I’m continually amazed by the number of people on Twitter and on blogs, and the growth of people (and brands) on facebook. But I’m also amazed by how so many of us are spending our time. The echo chamber we’re building is getting larger and louder. More megaphones don’t equal a better dialogue. We’ve become slaves to our mobile devices and the
glow of our screens. It used to be much more simple and, somewhere, simple turned into slow.

We walk the streets with our heads down staring into 3-inch screens while the world whisks by doing the same. And yet we’re convinced we are more connected to each other than ever before. Multi-tasking has become a badge of honor. I want to know why.

I don’t have all the answers to these questions but I find myself thinking about them more and more. In between tweets, blog posts and facebook updates.
Howard Mann is a speaker, entrepreneur and the author of Your Business Brickyard.

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A good post on why social media may not be all it’s cracked up to be. I really agree with many points in this commentary.

We are human beings. And, human beings have issues. Do we want those issues to be permanent and archived for the long-term?

Our day-to-day comments, thoughts, and opinions just “float off in to space and 99% of the time are gone for all eternity.”

A rebuttal for Joshua would be that those that choose to participate need to hold themselves more accountable for their actions, thoughts, words, and opinions. Thus, improving our society and being better citizens.

Read the full blog post on Why social media is BAD, BAD, BAD.