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Maybe I'll tweet.
obviously like any other social media you get your share of emo tweens, nail polish pics, cats & dogs, and half-naked people. so choose who you are following carefully, mostly if you watch your feed in public...
also you can look me up on it: oni_dels
I'll give you the social aspect of Instagram but you're creating yet another network of users to share with on top of Twitter, Facebook and whatever other networks you might already be a part of. I'm done with Instagram and I really just installed it out of spite for the iPhone hipsters who were bemoaning Android users getting access to it now. They can have it for all I care.
Edit: It works now after updating.
It's a rare occasion when people get together in person through a social network. It's definitely the exception to the rule. I would agree 100% that without Icrontic I would not have the wonderful friendship I have with many of you. But without seeing you in person, the bond grows weaker. I can update you thousands of times a day without never again seeing you in person, but that's not fulfilling to me as a member of the human race. I lament the fact that I have not been out to Michigan in a long time, but posting a picture, an update, a tweet, every day will not change that.
That is not to say social media is useless, but it should not be the primary way people keep in touch. It is a valuable tool for people to communicate when separated by thousands of miles, social upheaval, and natural disasters. We have also seen that it is a double-edged sword in those situations as well. Information is spread so rapidly, but not necessarily correctly.
So yes, Brian, I do think it's possible to be too social media. I don't care about your tweets, your updates, your instagrams. When I want to share my world, I will. The constant barrage of information dilutes the relevant information. I will never have as many posts or tweets as you, nor do I care to. It doesn't make me less social than you.
Icrontic does have events, but Icrontic is not the 99%
Trying to make shorter something that is not a rant, it is an older generation POV of the word social offered to get intergenerational understanding rather than to start flame-warring.
-Digi