Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: cranky
  • Music: The theme from Pokemon X.

Social media saturation.

There's a trend I've been noticing lately: everything is suddenly everywhere. I think this may have something to do with the emails I receive daily that are literally checklists of every social media site in existence, complete with a handy "be sure to like this here! Be sure to tweet about this here! Be sure to make a witty Tumblr post complete with reaction .gif here! Be sure to..." and I don't know what comes after that, because I have already deleted the email and gone off to interact with something less exhausting. I have enough trouble remembering to promote myself; I can't take on the responsibility of promoting everything I come into contact with.

It feels like the signal to noise ratio is getting skewed; everything is a sea of signal boosts and endorsements and link-backs and that's lovely, if they're things that you support and believe in. I try to post and tweet and yes, Facebook and the rest about things that I care about. But I don't care about everything in the universe. That would be exhausting.

I wonder if we're just all drowning, and thus all afraid of being overlooked. Whatever it is, I admit I'm getting a little tired of being told how to use my social media. "People will be more likely to notice this if you tweet it!" Well...yes. But then they're less likely to notice my awesome Pokemon.

Everything's a trade-off.
Tags: contemplation, technology
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carmy_w

November 12 2013, 18:10:46 UTC 3 years ago

I have finally gotten to the point of saturation on my main email; I got on so very many lists of national political entities that I was swamped. Now I just do a wholesale delete of them all unless I happen to find one that actually sounds interesting (a few petitions, that's mostly it), or if it's a campaign for my state.
My social media frustration at the moment is with tumblr. Why in the world am I getting an auto-generated email telling me to go look at what's happening on tumblr when I'm already logged in on tumblr??? That's just stupid.

ironed_orchid

November 13 2013, 03:06:58 UTC 3 years ago

Tumblr seem to have amped up their notificatins in the last month or so.

I reset my preferences, and all the emails from them went away, but for awhile it was deeply annoying.

carmy_w

November 13 2013, 16:04:22 UTC 3 years ago

I didn't even get any "Here's what's on tumblr!" notes until they started doing them just after they did the buyout/merger with Yahoo. Just the regular notifications.
I'm just glad there's a spot to turn the darn things off!