Is Social Media turning you into a Douchebag?

I use social media personally and to promote my nonprofit, but I’m mindful not to put documentation above experience. When we’re out having drinks/at dinner, can I finish a fucking story (or better yet, can you finish yours?!) before being interrupted with “wait, that’s really funny can I tweet that?” Or, “I really want to hear this, but can you take a picture of me first..I’m want to update my Facebook status?” Or, “hold on, I need to check in here?”

This is pure colloquium interruptus, which is latin for “I’m being a total douchebag who can’t be present.”

Now, if you’re accompanied by fellow SMD’s (social media douchebags), remember the 1980’s anti-drug commercial where, after being admonished by his father for doing drugs, the little boy responds “I learned it from watching you!”


It’s rude. I love you. Stop.


Note: This post is not for the novice social media user, it's for the socialmeadialites, the twitter ninjas, and the Facebook freaks.

If you were tweeting during the Thom Yorke/Atoms for Peace concert you just didn’t “get it.”

There is a time and a place for social media and it was NOT during the cochlear magic that was Atoms for Peace. Mid-way into that show I didn’t even know what a cell phone was, moreover had the ability to update my twitter status. Yet I had to endure the annoyingly bright screen in the hands of this clown shoe next to me who’s updating her twitter status and taking pictures nonstop. That show was the stuff of legend, and you fucking missed it.

*I wrote this on April 7th, pre-entering the blogosphere.