My posts have been few and far between over the past couple of months. Yeah, I know. The reason:
- My book – It’s taking everything out of me. I write so often that I have little writing left over for anything else. And yes, the project still goes. I have to hammer out 50 more pages by next Friday.
- My success club – I’m working with a small group of highly motivated business owners who want to use podcasting in their business. The coaching, the networking and the chance for me to not hold back on any of my strategies has been extremely freeing and rewarding.
- My exhausion with the digital noise – Twitter, Digg, Flickr, Facebook, Second Life, the constant barrage of requests to do this and join that. I’ve had to put my status on invisible on just about every IM I’m on just so I can enjoy some silence. I just find all these social networking tools very…what’s the word…intrusive. Why can’t I be online and not have to connect with anybody? Why is it that everytime I turn on my computer, I have to be engaged in “the conversation”? And why when I choose not to connect with anybody for a hours, even days, I’m labelled as a snob? I just don’t get it. It’s incredibly overwhelming at times.
So there you have it. I need a vacation.
Oh Dina, I hate IM with a passion. I’ve sworn it off. Often, people will ask for my Yahoo IM id and when I tell them I don’t have, they’re shocked. I liken IM to someone entering your office unannounced and uninvited, slapping you on the back of your head and grinning like a Cheshire cat waiting for your reply. Utterly annoying.
Leesa, are you serious? You’ve been “labeled as a snob” for not wasting the day leaping from social network to social network? Uh… I’d prefer to label you as someone with good sense!
I’ve always found it amusing that the same people who I know from Ryze and Myspace are also trying to pull me in and connect with them on a bunch of networks I’ve never even heard of.
I tell my clients that I don’t use IM. I don’t need people blipping incomplete thoughts at me and then accusing me of not understanding what they were trying to get across in their marketing. Not that that happens… but I bet it would if I used IM!
You seemed to have inspired a rant. Thanks. I think.