Realtime. Url. Blog Archive » Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter. Posted by Michael Pinto on Jan 20, 2009 in Tech | Nearly a day goes by on Twitter without yet another social media “expert” choosing to stalk me.
At first it started innocently — back in the day (about a year ago) various techie friends started to declare themselves social media gurus because they decided to hang out on Twitter and Facebook all day. And now an army of their offspring monitor Summize in search of human flesh. Now the first symptom of this disease was what I call “social media deafness”, a state that occurs when a person’s social graph exceeds 500+ virtual friends. The History and Evolution of Social Media. Social media has become an integral part of modern society.
There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. It seems there are social solutions to just about every need. I invested a lot of time this year in FriendFeed and Twitter ins.