James Wilding's Weblog

The internet gives us amazing new ways to communicate with each other: blogs, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc. What often ruins these cool tools is that people use them as ego trips — not really posting anything useful, just trying to get more followers, more ‘friends’, more subscribers.

Who cares if you have ten thousand followers on Twitter? How many of them do you think really read what you write? The whole ‘Social Media’ thing should be about real communication, not posturing.

When I read your blog, or follow you on Twitter, or subscribe to your RSS feed, I don’t want to read stuff that you think will impress me. I want to read about you: what you think, what you feel, what gets your attention. That’s what matters — that’s what makes my life more interesting and broadens my horizons. Everything else is just fluff.