Could you give up social media? Would you want to give up social media?
For those of us immersed in social media, it sounds like a strange proposition given how integrated social media has become within our personal and professional lives.
But it’s definitely an idea worth exploring, which is why Ari Herzog’s blog post – 40 Days and 40 Nights Without Social Networking – caught my attention this morning.
While social media is oozing with hyperbole, it’s how many of us communicate, market and sell on a daily basis. A growing number of us have enthusiastically embraced services such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, Ning, Vimeo, MySpace and Foursquare so not using them would be like not using e-mail or the telephone.
This is not to suggest we have to use social media all the time. In fact, taking a digital holiday – even if it’s for a few hours – is healthy and, arguably, necessary for our mental sanity. Once in awhile, you need to step back from the digital hurricane before you get back into the fray.
That said, the idea of giving up social media completely is a non-starter for a lot of people. Could you stop using social media? Could you stop using a particular a social media service? If so, what would it be?
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