The Chaos of Social Media
This social media thing is getting the best of me. It is getting very crowded, and quite chaotic.
For example – if you go to the bottom of this posting, and click the “Share This” button and expand it downward, you’ll see more than 100 social media sites on which to share this post. That is far too many to keep up with!
So it ends up that there are a few popular ones, but I still know people that read from an wide assortment of them. As a blogger, I can’t possibly share or post a link to my blog to all of those sites, which is what a blogger should do. The more sites you get your post onto, the more it will be shared, and the more people will come and look at it and post comments.
I don’t see the list getting any smaller any time soon. The sharing sites are free to use, you just have to sign up and post what you like. Eventually, if it hasn’t already, income streams will have to be generated by the people who host the sites. With the volume some of those sites get, funding them can quickly get out of control.
Social media is great – it’s the latest tool for internet users to spread news, facts, important stories – even new business news and developments.
I believe once an income stream business format can be deveolped for social media sites, we might see some combining of the sites under “umbrella” companies. Some of the lesser-used sites might go by the wayside.
What is the blogging community to do? Have a plug-in that takes your post or news and automatically sends that to hundreds of social media sites? Hire a public relations firm to do the grunt work of posting news and information on an hourly basis?
What are your thoughts on the number of social media sites out there? Post a comment and let the world know. Who knows – maybe your thoughts will make it to a few of the sharing sites.
