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August 15, 2007
My Social Media Sunrise:
There was a time, not that long ago, when after waking up and having my first cup of coffee, I would spend my first hour of the morning on-line, catching up on email, while thinking about a morning blog post. Those days are now gone for me, at least for now, and maybe forever.
With the advent of my adoption of twitter and being someone who has moved into Facebook, my first on-line hour of the day is now spent multitasking between email, twitter, Facebook while still thinking about what to blog about.
On twitter, I have found the 6am – 7am ET time period to be “twitter sunrise.” This is the time of day where many of my twitter friends from the East Coast are waking up; when some of the West Coast twitter friends are signing off and the time of day when one can catch friends from Peth, Australia and friends from Paris, France all on-line at the same time. Each time I experience a “twitter sunrise”, I am brought back to a moment in time when I used to be very active in my Ham radio when I would drop by a certain frequency and check-in and hang out with friends, sometimes for hours.
On Facebook I use the time I have available to catch up with: replying to messages received overnight; sending out new messages; and catching up with Facebook groups on my radar. While “Poke maybe the New Ping”, I have recently realized that a Poke is a great way to check the real-time pulse of some of my friends. Poke is an expression of presence and availability as much as it is a social activity.
And this is all happening while I’m also still trying to catch up with my email.
Welcome to my Social Media Sunrise.
Tags: twitter, Facebook, Social Media, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on August 15, 2007 07:22 AM | Permalink
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This is the same experience I have. Watching the shifts around the world is just fascinating!
Posted by: Molly Holzschlag at February 18, 2008 09:37 AM
the mobile versions of both twitter and facebook are good to accompany walks to town.
Posted by: Edward Vielmetti at August 16, 2007 09:52 AM
Oh My God!! There is somebody similar to me out there. The only difference being, I check Pownce and Orkut.
Posted by: Moksh Juneja at August 16, 2007 04:22 AM
Morning rounds of email now complemented with quick check of Facebook and LinkedIn. In Facebook blog friends so quick look at friends' blogs. Then Facebook groups leads to LinkedIn users in FAcebook with... all the invitations to join networks in LinkedIn. Hofstaedterian self-reference looming. And, a big cup of coffee for all of it.
Posted by: Alejandro Pisanty at August 16, 2007 03:27 AM
Yeap, that is 8pm-9pm on our east coast and 6pm - 7pm on the west coast which is where I am, there's a similar spike in the morning which is when we're getting ready to go to work and our opposite side friends are home and enjoying their relaxe after work.
By the way did you know that according to the "Drill a Hole Through the Earth" application in Google Maps my fair city of Perth comes out just NW of the Bahamas? Says something about our climate I guess...
And - I didn't realise you were a Ham, most of my friends here are Hams, and if ever you do come to Perth you need to come to a PRAWNHEADS lunch on a Wednesday, mostly Hams, fliers, or computer WiFi geeks who will welcome you with open arms. So put a trip to Perth on your itinerary, before the two chief instigators of PH (myself and Don) leave on our respective Grey Nomad caravanning trips (EOY 2007 approximately).
Posted by: teddlesruss at August 15, 2007 10:58 PM
:::Poke:::
:o)
Posted by: Ann at August 15, 2007 10:52 PM
Or as jean puts it in "Is the Social Web Getting Loud or What?" at http://blog.stickis.com/2007/08/10/137/,
"Damn. I did it again: it’s not even noon yet and, just like the car talk brothers always say, I just wasted another perfectly good hour. Except, this time, I spent it tweaking my buddy list on Twitter and answering a deluge of invitations from folks on various social networks."
Posted by: Marc Meyer at August 15, 2007 09:53 PM
So true, so true. After I hit snooze, but before I go back to sleep, I do a quick check of Twitter from my blackberry and if I can do the log-in half asleep, I also check mobile facebook. Then I drift back off and really catch up while I'm on the bus.
As you all know from my obsessive traffic reports.
Posted by: Leah at August 15, 2007 07:42 PM
Does this make Blog Friends out of the question?
Posted by: Noah David Simon at August 15, 2007 07:15 PM
I catch the sunrise from my bedroom window, then glancing fondly at my laptop, I tear myself away to go down to the gym (gratefully in my condo) for 30 minutes of cardio on the treadmill, then, like you, Jeff, Facebook & G-Mail usually in that order for the reasons you have cited. Well said!
(One of)Your (many) Facebook friend(s),
CanadianChristine
Posted by: Christine at August 15, 2007 07:05 PM
I loved this article. It's so true too. Real time life casting has taken over. I still enjoy all the other social media outlets but I do find myself drawn to twitter 1st thing in the morning as well.
Posted by: Dayngr at August 15, 2007 02:33 PM
I have to say i find timezones and the internet to be at once confusing and liberating. I now think about when to twitter important news on the basis of whose audience I wish to capture. but I commented and linked back to your article here
Posted by: Nicholas Butler at August 15, 2007 01:47 PM
Sounds like my morning. And brings back the same memories, when I was WD8BES on the 40-meter band. :)
Posted by: Weave at August 15, 2007 12:04 PM
Now that I've recently become more active on Facebook, I find myself adopting the same morning ritual. Of course, now my rss feeds are suffering beacause of it!
Posted by: Jeff Glasson at August 15, 2007 11:39 AM
Hi Jeff. My mornings are very similar - although I wake up a bit later than you. :) As a fellow east coaster - I love your "good morning" tweets.. it's kind of like the beginning of a new chapter in a great book. I wake up and grab treo, hop back in bed, and read back through the timeline.. to where I left off before I went to bed. ;) then it's off to Facebook and email...
Posted by: Stephanie Agresta at August 15, 2007 11:29 AM
I always feel like I have missed something when I check Twitter and read all the sunrise greetings from the East Coast--like I'm playing catch-up with some of my favorite "tweeps." Social media has changed my morning routine. I still go to e-mail first, but instead of moving straight to Google Reader, I now go to Twitter followed by Facebook. It's the social aspect that draws me--the need for connection trumps information. Although I do get valuable information from both Twitter & Facebook as well as social interaction.
Posted by: Connie Reece at August 15, 2007 11:14 AM
So true. my first things is catchup on twitter and facebook these days before email. how strange and how fast i deployed that routine in my mental state.
Wow the power of networks eh?
Posted by: phil at August 15, 2007 11:10 AM
I've always called it "my morning surf" but I love your description even more.
Posted by: C.C. Chapman at August 15, 2007 09:37 AM
What an invigorating way to wake up. By the time I check in on Twitter (usually 7am EDT or thereabouts) there is usually plenty of chatter going on. Twitter sunrise kind of sets the tone for the day.
Posted by: Jim Long at August 15, 2007 08:27 AM
Jeff: walking is the new Facebook.
;-)
Posted by: Dean Whitbread at August 15, 2007 08:26 AM