Media socialite
A reporter from Tax Analysts, a national tax publisher, interviewed me today about my use of social media. I think it is generally thought of as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but I also consider old-fashioned blogs like this to be "social media."
I blogged pretty hard for a long time when I had the Tax Update Blog at work. I tried to link to all the other tax bloggers, which I guess made it "social." I've been on Facebook a long time, but I don't much use it for work. I have had my Twitter account since 2008, but I didn't start using it to promote Tax Update posts for several years afterwards, when I started to "get" Twitter. And there's LinkedIn, which is designed as business social media. I haven't taken LinkedIn seriously until the last few weeks, when it helped a new client get in touch with me, to my astonishment. And I haven't done reddit much at all.
While a lot of people complain about social media, I think it's amazing. You can can follow a lot of interesting and smart people. Of course, there are plenty of boring and dumb people too. By careful muting and by blocking dumb sites that people like to forward, I can keep most stuff that annoys me out of my Facebook feed.
Meanwhile, for no money down, I can read every day new posts from friends about pets, kids, vacations and dad jokes. I can follow the tour schedules of bands I like, and their projects. 20 years ago, the only a big personal network of music industry insiders could provide the sort of information available with minimal effort today. I can get detailed information about the Cubs -- and their minor leagues -- that almost nobody could get when I was in school. And this is true for countless specialized interests.
Yes, they get some data about me. I have to give a lot more sensitive data to IRS every year, and they can try to use it to put me in jail. While Facebook and Twitter aren't perfect, they can't imprison me. It seems a bad idea to have the people that can put me away too involved with social media.
But that's too serious, so here's a picture of a semi-rare visit of IAIS slug #650 in Downtown Des Moines.
I blogged pretty hard for a long time when I had the Tax Update Blog at work. I tried to link to all the other tax bloggers, which I guess made it "social." I've been on Facebook a long time, but I don't much use it for work. I have had my Twitter account since 2008, but I didn't start using it to promote Tax Update posts for several years afterwards, when I started to "get" Twitter. And there's LinkedIn, which is designed as business social media. I haven't taken LinkedIn seriously until the last few weeks, when it helped a new client get in touch with me, to my astonishment. And I haven't done reddit much at all.
While a lot of people complain about social media, I think it's amazing. You can can follow a lot of interesting and smart people. Of course, there are plenty of boring and dumb people too. By careful muting and by blocking dumb sites that people like to forward, I can keep most stuff that annoys me out of my Facebook feed.
Meanwhile, for no money down, I can read every day new posts from friends about pets, kids, vacations and dad jokes. I can follow the tour schedules of bands I like, and their projects. 20 years ago, the only a big personal network of music industry insiders could provide the sort of information available with minimal effort today. I can get detailed information about the Cubs -- and their minor leagues -- that almost nobody could get when I was in school. And this is true for countless specialized interests.
Yes, they get some data about me. I have to give a lot more sensitive data to IRS every year, and they can try to use it to put me in jail. While Facebook and Twitter aren't perfect, they can't imprison me. It seems a bad idea to have the people that can put me away too involved with social media.
But that's too serious, so here's a picture of a semi-rare visit of IAIS slug #650 in Downtown Des Moines.
posted by Joe at 9:42 PM
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