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Social Networking Media – What Will You Do, be Connected or be a Voyeur?
Author: Nancy McCord  | Posted: 24-04-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1 | Rating: (100)  (?) 
 Social networking media is a big buzz on the Web. Even if you haven't heard the term "social media networking", surely you have heard of the big social media networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace. You've probably even embraced some of the new adjunct social media applications as mainstream in your daily life if you are blogging, use Twitter, bookmark website you like on Digg or StumbleUpon. But, what is our preoccupation with social media and social media networking is it to connect with others or to simply become a voyeur into other people's lives?
Social media networking and social media applications have proliferated this last year. Updating and actively working on your social media network is not just for college and high school students; real estate agents, business owners, and internet professionals are flocking to social media networking sites by the millions.
At these top social media networking sites, you are encouraged to reveal as much information about yourself as possible. You are asked to post what you do, where you go, what you buy, whose parties you go to, who you have connected with, upload photos of yourself, and much more. These sites are a candid snapshot of you! What makes these sites so incredibly popular is just that, the candid, naked view of real people; people who you may want to know and others who you may not want to know! My question is however, are social media networking sites creating a world of voyeurs and really the new performance art of the 60's or are they efforts in our increasingly global and disconnected world to connect with others?
Here's just one example, www.Twitter.com is a new social media application that encourages you to write 140 word mini-posts about what you are doing RIGHT NOW. You can embed your mini Twitter "blog" on any social media networking page and are even encouraged to text-in to Twitter with your cell phone "and tell us what you are doing right now!" Using Twitter, you allow others to watch and follow what you do throughout the day. You can select to follow other people, who use Twitter, to even find out what they've eaten for lunch or are doing "right now". In a way it's kind of fun to see what other people you are interested in knowing more about are doing, but in a way it is kind of disconcerting to know that everyone who wanted to look, saw you went to the garden center yesterday to buy a new rose trellis.
The value of social media networking from my viewpoint is to allow people to connect with each other in our global community in a new and exciting way. Whether you become just a voyeur or become an active connected participant is all up to you! Me, I am choosing to become connected and to embrace some of these new applications. I find them interesting, fun, and opportunities to really connect with others in my field of expertise.
You can watch what I'll be doing today on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mccordweb.
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About the Author:Nancy McCord is the Owner of McCord Web Services LLC. She is a prolific and talented web copywriter, active blogger, web designer, and search engine marketing expert. Visit her business website at www.McCordWeb.com.
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