All the Brouhaha

It seems as though so many things on the Internet are like a treadmill– certain things keep going on and on with no end in sight. For instance, there seems to be a lot of anti-Twitter talk lately. “Twitter is for self-involved hacks”, “Twitter is the ultimate ego tool” blah blah blah.

I don’t do Twitter because there’s so much noise. It’s the same reason that I don’t do forums anymore. It seems that some people just have to have the last word no matter what and they just keep on talking until they do. But also I don’t have any real criticisms of Twitter as a networking tool. It’s been around for a few years and suddenly it’s popularity is through the roof. I’m pretty sure, though, the “I had an egg for breakfast” phase has long since past, though those who have only just decided Twitter exists can’t see that. Perhaps they should use it to find out if it’s their “thing”. By the way, Facebook and MySpace aren’t my thing either. I’m just not that into the networking thing.

Entrecard has come under some criticism lately, too. Of course, EC isn’t as mainstream as Twitter, but I’m involved there too and so was exposed. People don’t like what Graham is doing with his ad space (rotating third party ads in the widgets) and were leaving en masse. Apparently some of the forum mods were causing issues too.

I personally don’t care what goes in the widget. Entrecard is another tool for me and that’s how I use it. I’m not the least bit emotionally involved in the project, and as long as I don’t have half-naked women on my widget, I’m not going to raise a fuss over such mundane policy changes. Of course, one person says that blogs are our business and we should raise a fuss. Except my blog is my hobby (everyone blogs for different reasons and all that jazz) and I’m just rolling my eyes at the brouhaha. Don’t like it? Leave it. No one is forcing anyone to use these tools. Right? Right.

It seems like there’s always something with new things that come out. They come out one way, people get attached and any changes that are made cause the roof to crumble on some folks. It’s almost comical to watch. The treadmill of Internet networking and marketing keeps on going. I’ll continue doing my own thing and if something doesn’t interest me I’ll leave it alone. No point in going on about it if it’s not doing for me what I need it to do.

Of course, I’m not trying to be the most popular in my category or in my twitterverse or in the facebook. I just come to play and hopefully learn some things. I don’t make a career out of my ramblings and that’s probably a good thing as I don’t think I’d be the one to get rich quick.

Your mileage may vary.

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