Comments on: What Law and Order, Slate, and The New York Times Taught Me About Social Media http://social-media-optimization.com/2007/06/what-law-and-order-slate-and-the-new-york-times-taught-me-about-social-media/ Merging of Traditional Media, SEM and Social Marketing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:58:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Search Matters Weekly Search = $array[] | Catalyst Search Matters Search Marketing Blog http://social-media-optimization.com/2007/06/what-law-and-order-slate-and-the-new-york-times-taught-me-about-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-19636 Search Matters Weekly Search = $array[] | Catalyst Search Matters Search Marketing Blog Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:59:24 +0000 http://social-media-optimization.com/2007/06/what-law-and-order-slate-and-the-new-york-times-taught-me-about-social-media/#comment-19636 [...] [1] => Ripped from the headlines: How Law & Order, Quantumleap and whole bunch of other pop culture references can teach you about Social Media and Networking. (SMO) [...] [...] [1] => Ripped from the headlines: How Law & Order, Quantumleap and whole bunch of other pop culture references can teach you about Social Media and Networking. (SMO) [...]

]]> By: Francis http://social-media-optimization.com/2007/06/what-law-and-order-slate-and-the-new-york-times-taught-me-about-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-14639 Francis Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:50:37 +0000 http://social-media-optimization.com/2007/06/what-law-and-order-slate-and-the-new-york-times-taught-me-about-social-media/#comment-14639 First of all, the pop culture ref's were awesome! Quantum Leap, Buffalo Bill and Law & Order all in the same post. This will probably cause a google data center to burst into flames. Secondly, great post. Social Networking online is really a nascent technology. Sure, we've been social networking for years but now we've taken the water cooler gossip, laundromat pontifications, and PTA punditing and rolled them into one instant gratification package that everyone can comment on. Social networking offline was small and compartmentalized. Yeah, we told secrets and related stories but the story got changed at each point like that gossip game you play where you whisper a secret to the next person in line and the secret is completely different by the time the last person tells it. Now that natural, organic dissolution of a social interaction is permalinked, archived and DUGG for all eternity - for all to see. This presents a problem because callous insults or tawdry conversation that was made in the heat of anger or after too many glasses of merlot that was usually forgotten or fogiven shortly thereafter now lives forever on the web in these communities. Which means a person's online "profile" is built, not on who they are, but on what they've said or who they've interacted with. This is why it appeals to pervs so much. What better for a voyeur than a MySpace profile than can be read and reread 24/7 with complete anonymity? Don't get me wrong. I love social networking and I think we'll get it down just like we got the watercooler gossip down...it'll just take a little time and growing pains. First of all, the pop culture ref’s were awesome! Quantum Leap, Buffalo Bill and Law & Order all in the same post. This will probably cause a google data center to burst into flames.

Secondly, great post. Social Networking online is really a nascent technology. Sure, we’ve been social networking for years but now we’ve taken the water cooler gossip, laundromat pontifications, and PTA punditing and rolled them into one instant gratification package that everyone can comment on. Social networking offline was small and compartmentalized. Yeah, we told secrets and related stories but the story got changed at each point like that gossip game you play where you whisper a secret to the next person in line and the secret is completely different by the time the last person tells it.

Now that natural, organic dissolution of a social interaction is permalinked, archived and DUGG for all eternity – for all to see. This presents a problem because callous insults or tawdry conversation that was made in the heat of anger or after too many glasses of merlot that was usually forgotten or fogiven shortly thereafter now lives forever on the web in these communities.

Which means a person’s online “profile” is built, not on who they are, but on what they’ve said or who they’ve interacted with. This is why it appeals to pervs so much. What better for a voyeur than a MySpace profile than can be read and reread 24/7 with complete anonymity?

Don’t get me wrong. I love social networking and I think we’ll get it down just like we got the watercooler gossip down…it’ll just take a little time and growing pains.

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