Misuse Of Social Tools-Guilty As Charged

There are people that I am really interested in following. I want to be aware of things going on with them. That’s why I follow them. I hate to see these people tarnish their image by abusing community technology tools. Social media is about being social. You have to listen as well as talk. Services like Ping.fm and HelloTxt are very powerful and can cause a lot of damage to this interaction in the wrong hands.

Oh boy, I had to apologize to Rahsheen. I know for a fact he was talking about me. I "wedge" myself into twitter conversations. I use Ping.fm from my phone but I don't reply. I tweet questions and forget to respond till 8hrs later. I ask questions my webmaster should answer and fix(btw, I am my webmaster). I treat Friendfeed like twitter and state inane things. Today I asked my listeners what kind of Phone should I get next. When Mike answered me, I said "@fruchter htc tilt? i like htc but i need qik too". Where was the thank you for responding? I point out these faults in my online presence to show that sometimes we don't realize our lack of civility until someone knocks us over the head with it...Thanx man, now can you show me how to write scripts? I have this great idea and...

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