October 4, 2007 at 8:10 pm
· Filed under Learning to Blog, Social Media
This morning I woke to an in-box filled with updates from global friends gathered through FaceBook. There were notes and photos and puzzles and games. It would easily take two hours to respond to each and participate.
The social media revolution is creating a pound of bacon each morning!
Bacon is a variant of Spam, that wonderful in-box filler offering Viagra from Thailand or promises of fortune from Nigeria. But instead of being unsolicited like Spam (I really did NOT request the Viagra emails - promise!), Bacon is from friendly sources.
Someone added a photo to Flicker. You’ve got a message on Facebook. Someone was up all night on MySpace and now you have 27 messages from the same person - really!
Social media companies are quickly trying to develop a “daily digest” option so you’ll receive one update versus dozens and dozens. They better act quickly because too much bacon did in poor old Mr Atkins. And if the protein diet king couldn’t survive on bacon, I don’t like our chances!
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Lee Aase wrote @ October 5th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Hey Walter - some good thoughts here, except it wasn’t the bacon, but a trip and a fall, that cause Atkins’ demise. 
I personally don’t have a bacon problem. I get info about friends in Facebook, and subscribe to RSS feeds, but 27 messages from one person in MySpace suggests you just need to adjust your friends list.
The Facebook newsfeed already is like the digest you mention. It’s not everything your friends are doing, but some selected highlights.
Dave Sag wrote @ October 6th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Hey Walter there’s a facebook group just for you. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10117075246
It’s called “fuck off… I don’t want to be a pirate/vampire/werewolf/zombie” and I joined it within a day of having a facebook account.
Cheers
Dave
Sarah H wrote @ October 19th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Walter, I completely agree with you. I want to stay on Facebook to keep in touch with people and stay connected, but these e-mails can be ridiculous. More than just the e-mails, though, when will these crazy extra features stop being added? I tuned out of these applications months ago, once the simplicity of messages, pictures, and wall postings turned into quizzes aboutwhat kind of cheese you like on your grilled cheese sandwiches.
Do you think everyone’s just dealing with all the bacon, or do you think it’s turning enough people away from social media to make a difference?
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The social media revolution is creating a pound of bacon each morning!
