Being anti-social SUCKS!

A lot of my friends have said lately that they’re all burnt out on Social Networking. How tired they are of every new service, blah blah blah. These past couple of weeks I’ve been down and out with the obligatory winter bug that corrupts our systems every so often when this dreary season start and it was exceptionally tough to debug this round.

Nevertheless, I seem to have swatted the buggers, but in the process I was feeling pretty much anti-social in the online sense of the word. I abandoned plurk, avoided Facebook and did not have much to write about other than how shit I feel, so I didn’t blog here, nor on Tech Leader. Twitter still isn’t much of a problem as they’re doing an outstanding job themselves in limiting my Twitter consumption.

It sucks. Although I had more than regular contact with my flesh and blood buddies, I missed all the geek-speak and babbling we normally do online. You’d think that with all those other things not distracting you, you’d be 10 times as productive. Sorry, WRONG! I’ve grown very used to be distracted by all the other things so I’m constantly searching for something… Its like “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” all the time. Okay, to be fair, it could have been the bugs that had me down… Seriously though, why would I want to work without all the distractions? Its not that much fun anyway!

Over the past couple of years, my attention span has become, uhm, flexible. I get tired after reading the first 140 characters of a book. Therefore, I read 3 or more books at once, 140 characters at a time. Works like a charm!

Anyways, guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m debugged and stable and have a backlog to catch up with!

2 Comments to "Being anti-social SUCKS!"

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 06/19/2008 at 12:46 am

  Stii, I think this finally proves that you are a hopeless socialite.

  On a more serious note, I think quality comms are very important. I love chatting to people when I feel I’m learning something from the conversation or growing in some form or other.

  Often I find you can learn a lot more from a quality 5-min conversation with somebody than hours of research on the internet.

  If there’s anything that the social networks can do for me it would be giving me better quality and not quantity. Social networking can quickly consume too much time and it can even become frustrating even for me personally.

• Jade said: On 06/19/2008 at 9:03 pm

  I myself is new to this world of geeks. Its not like geeks of the past, this is a cool worlds that very few understand and people want to get in.

  I am understanding more and more the lingo… and also miss my chatty friends if I had a bug!

  Anyway sending you a mail… and hope that you will like my ideas:)

Spit it out!

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