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September 04, 2007
Social Media Lag
In an couple of hours I will be flying to Israel to for meetings with early-stage startups, Geekcon 2007 and Jerusalem ROCKS!. I am looking forward to what I expect to be a fun and productive trip.
However, one aspect to international travel in 2007 I still have yet to come up with a solution for is something I can be best characterize as “Social Media Lag.” For me, this means the effects of falling out of sync with the community of people I try to keep regular contact with on places like twitter, Facebook and across the Blogosphere. This is a time where time just blends into an abyss and I generally don’t have the time to dedicate to writing blog posts the way I would prefer to. A time when I don’t get to “ego surf” as often as I normally do. A time I sometimes start to feel a little out of sync with the some of the things going on around me.
Another characteristic of “Social Media Lag” is when I suffer from “email-lag”, which in my case causes friends who are really trying to reach me to either send text messages (SMS) and/or leave messages for me inside of Facebook.
So far, the effects of “Social Media Lag” seem to linger longer than any jetlag I may suffer from. And I wonder…am I alone in suffering from “Social Media Lag” (or whatever this experience is called) or are there others out there who also experience something similar? And if so, how do they deal with it?
Tags: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem ROCKS!, Israel, twitter, Facebook, Social Media, Social Media Lag, Jeff Pulver
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I get my notifications, so I'm not totally cut off from my social life, but I don't have to enter a million different websites.
Posted by: tramadol at September 7, 2007 03:19 AM
I do know the feeling - the one where you are trying to track too many conversaitons, too many blogs and too many things at the same time...
The phrase 'spreading oneself too thin' comes to mind. I guess with any social network, relevance and being a 'close fit' is most important. after all a rocket scientist in a community of other rocket scientists will suffer far less lag, simply becasue the community will want his contribution far more then a community of (say) marketeers.
so how to fix the lag? focus on your core group
Posted by: Online PR Guy at September 6, 2007 06:35 PM
The opulence of social activity across the web is so huge, that it's almost impossible to keep up the pace.
My way of dealing, is by using 8hands. I get my notifications, so I'm not totally cut off from my social life, but I don't have to enter a million different websites. I get it all to my desktop.
So helpful.
Posted by: Richie at September 5, 2007 07:05 AM
The opulence of social activity across the web is so huge, that it's almost impossible to keep up the pace.
My way of dealing, is by using 8hands. I get my notifications, so I'm not totally cut off from my social life, but I don't have to enter a million different websites. I get it all to my desktop.
So helpful.
Posted by: Richie at September 5, 2007 07:05 AM
Every one of who lives and breathes suffers social-lag on all levels of society. Its called Sleep. When I realised that I have real world experiences of how to manage this online social lag and I applied them Ive been far more relaxed about being online or off.
My rule is this; you dont have to catch up you only need to join in.
Gavins comments are brilliant in an example that its about you and your contribution just as much as you listening to other contributions.
That said, have a great time at Jerusalem Rocks.
Posted by: Nicholas Butler at September 5, 2007 03:58 AM
This is what I call "blog debt". The world continues while you are out of sync and out of touch. On the positive side, it is an opportunity for free thought independent of other voices and events. Of course, with Twitter you can still send through SMS updates ... and you can write blogs but not respond to comments via email.
I tend to use the jetlag time (when I can't sleep) to catch up on reading and writing.
Posted by: Gavin Heaton at September 5, 2007 02:12 AM
Easy, take a personal assistance. she/he will clean the mess for you and you will have more time to do what you realy like.
Posted by: O.N at September 4, 2007 11:28 PM