Some of us have been waiting for “comeback” of unsocial media or anti-social media movement since last year. Some say that social media is now both over-hyped and hot opportunity. Many tries, many mistakes, few success stories.
Criticism of social media has been growing.
Dean Whitbread created Unsocialmedia.com:
“Unsocial Media will reward you by making your life more difficult. You will join an Unsocial Media network in order to be rejected, ostracised, pilloried, for reasons of self-improvement, so that you waste less time worrying about what other people are thinking and doing. Unsocial Media will remind you that you are spending too much time chasing your tail and disappearing up your own arse. You will benefit from Unsocial Media because we have far too much media already, and because your arse is too big, since you spend far too much time sitting on it in front of a computer.”
Think about that. And how social is “Unsocial media”:
“If you create a link to someone, after that the Unsocial Media Immoderators won’t leave you alone, even to the point of calling you on the phone, coming to your house, following you to the pub and harassing you at the bar, petulantly demanding alcohol and cigarettes.”
Oh, irony.
Thanks for the review.. I wrote that (and coined the phrase) back in 2007. Maybe I was jumping the gun, or maybe I was prescient.