Social Media dumped Social Networking! Like many relationships, the jilted party never saw it coming. Which prompts the question, What kind of person has Social Media become?

From what I’m gathering of late, it remains the broadcaster, but has become the overly serious type, loudest in the room, and the most eager to embrace the latest tragedy. Seemingly, so it can be the first to explain why it, Social Media, was instrumental in the cure. And perhaps it was. Was it?
I’m not singling out any individuals; let’s discuss the thousands as one, that one is named Social Media. I don’t mean to harsh on SM’s mellow, but from where I stand, it appears SM often falls, failing to truly engage the community — by talking at us instead of with us.

Has Social Media become a perpetual navel gazer?
It chatters incessantly about itself and how it works and how to make itself work more by working more to talk about itself and exactly how it could be working even more to talk about itself… And how!

It’s no wonder a wider demographic would rather be around SM’s cousin Social Networking since there’s only so much seriousness a person can take. Occasionally SM and SN get on thick as thieves, but not as well as they used to. Somehow along the way they’ve parted ways. From a rational eye view it’s hard to conceive this rift.

How in the world can it be possible for SM to take the lead over SN? No offense but not that many people have a thirst for SM’s tsunami of knowledge. Curiously it is Social Networking that enabled Social Media to get where it is today. Ah but we’ve all seen that before, someone using another to climb the social ladder then swiping away the ladder so they can be on top, all by themselves, appearing as if they got there by a miraculous flotation device.

If I didn’t work in/with Social Media, I doubt I’d pick up the phone when it calls. But SN has all my numbers and we communicate with ease and always have… I do value my Social Media friendship, although it feels we’ve become nothing more than co-workers. I wish for Social Media and Social Networking to mend their differences and return to the once beautiful rapport that spawned the information age.
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