Blog Why am I so active online?
WARNING!!! - This might be a rant…
Many a time I’ll meet a friend and they’ll say something like:
“Yo dude I see you showing up on my Facebook stream incessantly. You’re a real online freak aren’t ya?.“
To which I usually mumble somewhat apologetically:
“Sorry man, you know Facebook let’s you hide my updates right?”
Confessions of an online freak
I guess I’m growing tired of apologizing so I’ve decided to share some of the reasons for my intense relationship with the Web and hopefully next time someone approaches me about it I’ll have the sense to tell them to read this post.
How active am I?
Frankly I’ve stopped keeping track of the amount of my online profiles when I crossed the 120 mark.
Although I do keep frequent tabs on a select few (Twitter | Flickr | Facebook | MySpace | Picasa | Delicious) I don’t maintain most of them often, or at all, so it stands to reason that I should puzzle as to why I bother?
Why am I online?
I think that in all truth the answer is composed to varying degrees of all the following reasons:
- I like interacting with people. Online communities afford an excellent opportunity to do so on a truly global scale.
- I’m quite the show-off and probably a bit of a closet exhibitionist. Maintaining multiple online profiles is an easy, safe and non-obnoxious way to manifest this.
- I genuinely love the Web. I believe it to be by far the most significant development I’ve experienced so far in my lifetime and feel fortunate to be able to spend so much time interacting with it.
- It’s turned out to be a good livelihood for me. As I gradually made the transition over the years from industrial designer to web designer to online marketer I not only increased my income but my job satisfaction as wel. I think that to a certain extent working as a designer it irked me that I had to “whore out” my creativity and submit it to final judgement by my clients. Today I’m free to create what I want, when I want, and the consequences are entirely mine to suffer or enjoy.
- It’s good SEO. My site is currently highly ranked on search results for many of the key terms relevant to me.
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