{"id":1413,"date":"2012-01-21T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T01:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2012-01-21T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T01:58:23","slug":"social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2012\/01\/21\/social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been producing and consuming quite a bit more social media over the past couple of months. Not that that’s necessarily a bad<\/em> thing in and of itself, but it has certainly had a deleterious effect on what I do here<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Google+ just rocks. I’ve met more smart, creative people on Google+ than you can shake a stick at. There’s a lot of stuff that Google’s gotten right with Google+, and the features just keep coming. It’s open social, wrapped around the whole (online) world.\u00c2\u00a0If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend having a look.<\/p>\n

Facebook is, well, Facebook. People had been pestering me, to one extent or another, and yet I resisted. So\u00c2\u00a0after years of holding out I finally took an account there some months back. Over the Christmas holidays I became a little more aggressive about establishing relationships which, as everyone knows, must be reciprocal. Managing Facebook is, frankly, a pain in the ass. But I have<\/em> been catching some up with people I forgot I knew. Remember that old platitude, “we are the people our parents warned us about”?<\/p>\n

I’ve drawn the line at games and apps on those platforms. They’re just too invasive. The closest I came was with a billiards game on Google+. It looked interesting, like it might be fun while I waited for this process or that to finish, so I ran the installer. The first thing it did immerse me in a competitive world of other players. Statistics,rankings, invitations to play, and more! All I wanted to do was bang some balls around now and then, not make a career out of it! I uninstalled, and so much for that.<\/p>\n

I guess I’ve got some stuff to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been producing and consuming quite a bit more social media over the past couple of months. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing in and of itself, but it has certainly had a deleterious effect on what I do here. Google+ just rocks. I’ve met more smart, creative people on Google+ than you can … Continue reading Social Media<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}