I've been trying to get Google Plus authorship working on this blog and its sort of working but not perfectly. I do think that google should make it easier to integrate blogger and google plus. That'd be nice.
The other day I was struck by how this whole Google Plus thing could take off. I mean it didn't seem that likely but when you consider that everyone searches with google, meaning that they control what you see it suddenly appears to be advantageous to be among their friends. If you want to rank higher in google it might behoove you to start looking at Plus and getting your circle on.
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Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Chuckle o' the day and my opinion on THE MEDIA
A few years ago I was at OR Tambo and our plane was delayed so I went to the Wimpy for coffee and to read the paper. I had been a regular newspaper reader; studying business and politics at the time had made me feel as though I should know what was happening in our country.
I picked up the paper and the top story was about the xenophobic attacks. There were pictures and stories about the intense brutality of the attacks. The next page was about government corruption, the next about some crime or another. I sat there paging through the paper and I just felt sick to be honest. Everything was always the same. People were forever killing each other; politicians were always corrupt. It just felt like a never ending cycle.
I decided then and there to stop reading the newspaper and stop watching the news on TV. It wasn’t a hard-and-fast rule, more like a lifestyle. I wasn’t going to sit and read pages and pages of how lame the world is. There was enough crap in my own life to make up for all the lameness that was happening out there.
However, a media-less society is a not a good thing. Without the media we wouldn’t know about xenophobia, we wouldn’t hold our politicians to account. I just don’t want to have to fill my mind with worries and fears about our ‘crumbling world’. If nobody exposed the truth about Apartheid the world wouldn’t have imposed the sanctions they did. So I’m all for the media, just not for me.
I feel like I’m choosing to focus on problems I can change, rather than problems I never will and never plan to solve. I’d rather make the change around me instead of sitting reading endless reports about how psychotic the Oslo killer was. Because that just bleaks me out, and then I don’t do anything.
Maybe you’re different. Maybe you’re the same. Good luck either way.
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The weevils of social media
Now we all know facebook is pretty smart, but when I saw this on my newsfeed I was rather taken aback. This is cool. Basically if people meet at an event facebook knows about it and tells you. I was at the house warming and so were these two peeps and now they're friends (this might be old hat for some of you, but I only saw it now and think its pretty neat).
This leads me to a debate that everyone's been having for years, and was the recent topic of a breakfast club type thing I go to. Is technology and social media bad and stopping us from being social? Seeing as this is my blog I'll give you my opinion, and won't represent anyone else's flippin' opinion because they can go to their own flippin' blog and write about it.
In short social media is good. Change is not a bad thing. I feel enriched to know my friend met someone at a party I attended. The world has become a lot smaller, and now you can google anyone's name and find out their opinion on flippin' social media or karate or any topic. The argument is that people would be hanging out more with their friends if there wasn't social media, which is just rubbish really. I don't stay at home to update my status instead of heading to the local. No, instead I say "Michael-John Phillip - Who is keen to head to the local for some laughs?". Within 10 minutes I have four comments from friends I haven't seen in a while saying "hey we're in town, lets hang out". If anything social media has made us more social more of the time.
Social media gives us access to a vast array of knowledge that we didn't have before. We know more about the world around us than ever before. When I was a child we would have to call a hotel in Ceres to find out if there was snow on the berg. Now people update their status to find out about the snow, and get instant credible responses from friends who have just been or are their now.
So thats what I think. Social media is making us more social if anything. I will agree that there are some hermit crabs who sit on facebook chat and never see the light of day. Obviously I disagree with that, but an average use of facebook and twitter and blogs and such is just a better more creative way of connecting with the world.
Connect with Michael-John If you'd like to connect with me follow me on twitter at @MJPhillip , and on Google + by going through to my Google Plus page.
In short social media is good. Change is not a bad thing. I feel enriched to know my friend met someone at a party I attended. The world has become a lot smaller, and now you can google anyone's name and find out their opinion on flippin' social media or karate or any topic. The argument is that people would be hanging out more with their friends if there wasn't social media, which is just rubbish really. I don't stay at home to update my status instead of heading to the local. No, instead I say "Michael-John Phillip - Who is keen to head to the local for some laughs?". Within 10 minutes I have four comments from friends I haven't seen in a while saying "hey we're in town, lets hang out". If anything social media has made us more social more of the time.
Social media gives us access to a vast array of knowledge that we didn't have before. We know more about the world around us than ever before. When I was a child we would have to call a hotel in Ceres to find out if there was snow on the berg. Now people update their status to find out about the snow, and get instant credible responses from friends who have just been or are their now.
So thats what I think. Social media is making us more social if anything. I will agree that there are some hermit crabs who sit on facebook chat and never see the light of day. Obviously I disagree with that, but an average use of facebook and twitter and blogs and such is just a better more creative way of connecting with the world.
Connect with Michael-John If you'd like to connect with me follow me on twitter at @MJPhillip , and on Google + by going through to my Google Plus page.
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