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29 Reasons You’re A Socialmediaphiliac

by Christian Hollingsworth on September 22, 2011

in Social Media

We live in a social world.

I don’t know when it all started exactly, but what I do know is that many have become socialmediaphiliacs. Lovers of all things social media.

We Tweet, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Plurk, Plus, Ping, Chat, Skype, Email, UnThink, Klout, Comment, Quote, Meetup & more.

Do we remember how to speak? How to write more than a 140 character sentence? I fear if I open my mouth in public, I might only speak in 140 character bursts.

You may want to start varying your activities, if you’re doing too many of the following…

  1. Mr. Meow has his own social profiles.
  2. You Tweet your trips to the bathroom.
  3. Leaving a restaurant is forbidden before telling Foursquare you’ve been there first.
  4. You’re more interested in live-tweeting the Oscars versus enjoying the program.
  5. Changing your legal name to include the “@” symbol.
  6. Getting rid of your PO Box & landlines. Tweets, Facebook & email are sufficient.
  7. You Facebook your sister down the hall to ask if she grabbed the ice cream you wanted while she was in town.
  8. You’ve forgotten what a sunrise or sunset looks like because you’re glued to your computer screen.
  9. “Early to Tweet, early to Skype – makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
  10. No birthday arrives and passes without a personal Facebook message from you.
  11. What’s paper and pencil? You mean, books come in paper too?
  12. You wardrobe consists mainly of t-shirts that say things like, “My avatar can beat your avatar,” “Got Tweets?” and other social quotes.
  13. Close friends are replaced by those who live in Sweden, Canada, the United States & Australia.
  14. At night you pray to Mashable and TechCrunch.
  15. You had a Google+ invite before people even knew it existed.
  16. Your resume was created using LinkedIn.
  17. Pee in the middle of the night? Check your various social networks. Oops! It’s 5am suddenly.
  18. Your worth is suddenly tied to Twitter followers.
  19. Instant depression sets in when your Twitter follower number dwindles.
  20. Social crushes start developing.
  21. Teaching family and friends how to setup their social accounts.
  22. You’re known as “that social media guy/gal” locally.
  23. Facebook is a superb way to invite friends to the movie night you’re hosting.
  24. 3 hours daily is spent reading blogs and news feeds.
  25. You go to your closest Twitter tweep for relationship advice.
  26. What’s a Rolodex?
  27. The ads on Facebook know you better than you know yourself.
  28. Email for you is no more. Facebook messaging works just as well.
  29. Your spare bedroom is reserved for guests from your social networks passing through your city.

Now I ask a serious question. Why are you a socialmediaphiliac?

 29 Reasons Youre A SocialmediaphiliacAbout the Author, Christian Hollingsworth

Blogger, entrepreneur, digital marketing consultant and recording artist. I make money online and teach others how to do the same.

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