Having Social Media as a hobby can be sometimes a little invasive. Like most techies and internet lovers, I subscribe to a lot of trade magazines. The magazines come to my home and quickly end up in the rest room. I mean come on, who can honestly not say they do not read in the rest room?
I am not the only person who suffers from this affliction. I have had discussions with a lot of Social Media enthusiasts, who say if something is going well, and “It’s going to pop”, they carry the laptop or smart phone into the rest room to monitor their contents progress. *cough* Gerri *cough*
So, back to my original point. I tend to read trade magazines in the restroom, and I really start getting into an article. The articles are usually well written, and just long enough for me to finish my business. Here’s where the problem happens to be.
As a long time user of Social Media, you tend to get to know people. You see them in the Social space all the time. Now at the end of this well written article in this trade magazine, what do I see? I see a familiar face staring back at me in the small author bio. Come on man! Now it seems that this person has invaded my private time. A person I know from the Social Space has written an article that intrigued me during my private time. Seems kinda weird me.
I am not saying I read these persons articles while only in the rest room. I stumble across articles all the time in print publications that friends of mine have written, not only there but on the radio as well.
I have a nice long commute everyday, so I usually listen to NPR when I am not blasting music. During these trips as Social Media or “New” Media has begun to take it’s strangle hold on society, more and more stories about Social Media are making the news at a national level. It’s always fun to hear a Social colleague on the radio. So far it has happened about three times.
So now my question, is Social Media too Social or has being connected become less private?
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Tweets that mention SocialMediaRage » Sometimes it’s too Social. -- Topsy.com added these pithy words on Nov 09 09 at 8:34 amI think you think too much when you poo
Greg Davies aka cGt2099 added these pithy words on
Nov 09 09 at
8:41 am
Bdog2g2 added these pithy words on 
This is why I only have the Economist and Entertainment Weekly in the bathroom. Oh, and “Everyone Poops,” for the little guys.
AmyV added these pithy words on
Nov 09 09 at
12:31 pm
I dunno… some people answer their mobile phones, or text while on the job. Some people (not necessairily the same ones) even watch TV while sitting on the throne.
So, maybe, it might not be only Social Media invading our most private places. Of course, I could be wrong. After all, what do I know? I don’t have time to read magazines in the loo anyway. ;-p
Loup Dargent added these pithy words on
Nov 09 09 at
12:53 pm
It is what it is. I agree the trend is going in some interesting directions, & the cultural impact is unavoidable. Privacy, in case you haven’t noticed, is forever lost. Anonymity is impossible. Parse that.
charlie mchenry added these pithy words on
Nov 09 09 at
12:57 pm
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Bro. In India this is a little different, we don’t carry articles especially books to commode. What ever might the book contain, a book is treated as a holy thing. We respect it. When I refer to book, also it means magazines, novels, academic text books etc. This might be some what out of discussion, but I thought of telling this here.
saipraveen oruganti added these pithy words on
Nov 09 09 at
10:40 pm
What are magazines doing giving people avatars in the first place? It’s JUST WRONG!
raincoaster added these pithy words on
Nov 12 09 at
4:13 am
Are you really serious? How is social media becoming more social because you see a picture of someone you know in a magazine you chose to take to the bathroom while you were taking a dump?
If social media is becoming more social for you, good for you, but don’t act like your “friends” are invading your private time when you invite them in to a private place.
Kim added these pithy words on
Nov 23 09 at
12:33 am
@Kim,
Kim, please don’t take this article so serious. It was actually written to get a laugh. The guy who wrote the article in the magazine has seen this post AND got a laugh out of it.
I was merely making the point that a lot of people we interact with are also in the mainstream, (NPR, Trade Magazines, etc..). Again this article is just for laughs but also relates how close everyone is getting with new media.
Have a nice day…
SilentJay74 added these pithy words on
Nov 23 09 at
6:50 am
