too many soapboxes on the same street corner.
Seriously. Judging from the way so called "early adopters" use social media. You would think the movement evolved with the sole purpose of giving everyone a little soap box to shout out their expertise in little linkable, bloggable, tweetable bite sized pieces of ego. We all do it. No big deal in small doses. The problem is there are too many experts starting to get caught up in their own self importance. So much so that it's hard for them to see that their expertise is becoming a commodity.
What happens when social media folds into mainstream media? What happens when people figure out that all the stupid buzzwords out there are just different ways of saying absolutely nothing impactful whatsoever? What happens when knowing 101 ways to tweet becomes the social media equivelant of the stupid pet trick?
Too many soapboxes on the same street corner. A corner where the closest thing to a real audience is just a bunch of people in the real world gathered around listening just long enough until the light changes at the crosswalk.
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