These are some of the things we are losing thanks to this “easy to share” culture of ours:
- Integrity. People share other people’s content because that person shared their content first or because the relationship they have, not because of the value underneath. This is the biggest contributing factor to noise we have to tolerate nowadays.
- Credibility. If you think that everything is worthy of sharing, then nothing is.
- Audience. There’s a limit to how much noise people will put up with. Keep losing integrity (see above) and we will leave you.
- Respect. Integrity and credibility come before profit (money or other kind).
- Weak Ties. This is what online networking is 95% about. Being noisy means losing the connections that you worked so hard to have (even if they don’t tell you).
- Time. You are wasting ours and yours.
Forget the tools that make sharing easy, it must come with effort. That’s the only guarantee for value to beat selfish motives.
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Truth well told, Carlos!
Unfortunately this is the kind of stuff that makes people uncomfortable and wont get tweeted/ stumbled/bumbled/ whatever…. as much as it should!
Well done for thinking this through – its easy to get swayed by all the noise!
Cheers
Anita Lobo
Thanks for pointing that out Anita, I thought that too, but I think it had to be posted anyway. I’ll feature this comment on a post I’m working on.
Great! Look forward to it. Happy to find a kindred spirit. Cheers Anita