A couple of days ago I wrote and posted a poem (ranting) about social networks after reading Masalai’s article on how we are slowly becoming “Prosumers“. And last night whilst I was having a little “tinker” under the hood – the configuration screen of the Sociable plugin for Wordpress screamed out at me.
Sociable is a social bookmarking plugin that allows me to place any one of over 100 bookmarking style buttons at the end of each post – you might have seen it before…
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine…
The bookmarking buttons that I have chosen to enable on my blog are as follows (from left to right): Digg, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Twitter, Email to a friend and a Print this post option. Note that Sociable allows me to choose from 100 bookmarking services (youuuch!).
Here’s what the Sociable configuration page looks like…
…98 little boxes to be precise!!!
Whilst I was staring at the screen and pondering upon the number of choices – I came up with the idea of a rating system based on the number Social Networks that one belongs to.
And this is what I come up with:
- Zero networks: surely a hermit.
- Between 1 and 10 networks: an antisocial.
- Between 11 to 20 networks: an aspiring socilaite.
- Between 21 and 50 networks: deserves the title of socialite.
- Between 51 and 70 networks: a regular party-go-er.
- Between 71 and 90 networks: the life-of-the-party socialite.
- Between 91 and 100 networks: has contracted an acute case of socialitis.
- Beyond 100 networks: sick-as-sick can be!
Where are you on the scale?
UNITECH
Office of Higher Education
Paigatasa
Bulolo
Melanesian Arts Center
BMIMC
WordPress.com
well I’m closer to a hermit then anti-social. I am member of PNGBD, if that counts as a social networking site. and an ex-blogger (not posted anything in over 1 year)
so 1 possibly 2
weast
HAHAHA I think I’m pretty Anti-Social as well…tsk tsk tsk…well I shall certainly check out this Sociable Social Media App so I can Soooo Say that I have become more Sociable.. Now how Sick as Sick could that be?
[...] Thanks everyone who took part in my little Poll. The results after 3 days (Sunday to Today) are below. I know its not exactly the most accurate way of working out who’s on what in PNG. Though I believe it gives some rough guidelines as to which social networks are most used. While we’re on this subject check out Rob@PNG’s entertaining and informative posts on the matter here and here. [...]
Interestingly, in the old days interaction (the human type) was (and still is) a healthy pass-time. In this day and age when everything appears to moving online – the more we e-nteract the “sicker” we become!!
R
NB: Moral of the story… too much of a good thing is not necessarily a good thing!!
I tell you I”m behind left behind the times!
I’m surely a HERMIT….is that a good thing or a bad thing?
If the Internet didn’t have out attention….would it still work??????
We all start out as hermits and then….!!!
All fun aside – my personal view is that the less of these social networks I’m a member of… the more living I will have time for.
There’s certainly more to life than the internet… isn’t there???
R