Two good posts I read over the weekend on Social Media Fatigue. Too much out there? where the following diagram was shown that profiled someones typical social activity and posed the question - is social networking getting so complicated that people will just start giving up coming? Here's what
"...So one of the key buzzwords for 2008 is turning out to be social media fatigue. We have too many profiles, too many networks and too many places to publish our media. We're not sure where we need to be anymore and anxiety is setting in.
Shuttleworth decided to map his social activities - where he was publishing and what networks he was participating on. The result of his efforts is a diagram that depicts how complex the social media world is getting. Be warned, looking at this diagram can make you feel tired. Your social media life doesn't have to be as complex as this one."
I put Shuttleworth's Social Media Map above - sure does look like a lot of activity - but too much? I don't know.
I mean, after all, if I diagrammed what I do on a typical day - it would get just as complicated, or more complicated than the diagram above, but I still do what I do, get up, go to work, write, paint, whatever.
At what level do I want to diagram my activity - because if I want to get really detailed, I can come up with a diagram way more full that what Shuttleworth did.
On the other hand, if the Social Networking space is getting this complicated in the couple of years it's been around - what is it going to be like in 5 years from now? 10 years from now?
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