Social media addiction

Egwenealvere · 07-26-2009, 09:49 AM

Hello everybody,

Are you addicted to social networks as well? It is my second addiction next to World of Warcraft.

My name is John Cassidy and since approx 2 years now out of interest I have been doing research on Social Media and narrowed down to Online Communities.

At the moment I can benefit from this by writing my master thesis on the topic. For this reason I have just created an online survey on the "Attractiveness of online communities - a user’s perspective"
http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/online-communities

If you are interested in the topic please fill out the survey takes about 10 minutes and your time investment is appreciated.
However, I will post the findings on my blog: Online Communities so I suggest you look into it and join the broader discussion on the topic.

Thanks for your interest,
John

RaiZen18 · 07-26-2009, 03:17 PM

Nice survey! was interesting point! want to see the results at a later stage!

Egwenealvere · 07-26-2009, 03:23 PM

Here's a fun article ... it's statement:
MMORPG Gamers and Social Media Junkies are quite similar

content of the article is to compare the goals from members of both fields

http://mashable.com/2008/09/05/gamer...l-media-users/

I am biased on this one as I believe I am a bit of both
What are your thoughts on this?

Egwenealvere · 07-26-2009, 09:16 PM

Thank you RaiZen

I will keep everyone here updated on the results and as stated above also compile them on a separate ad free blog so everyone can enjoy them.

Greetings,
John

gamemaniac7 · 07-27-2009, 08:26 AM

This is nice to hear that you have initiated to do a survery for social media addiction as this trend is increasing day by day and hopefully will increase in near future as well.
I am looking forward to see the results. Best of luck.

Egwenealvere · 07-28-2009, 09:17 AM

Thanks all for the comments - they're energising :P

Here something fun to share which I just stumbled over searching the web
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities.png

Somewhat in the style of a treasure map, this ‘Map of Online Communities’ shows MySpace, Wikipedia, SecondLife and other online communities.

The geography is not as random - each community’s geographic area represents its estimated size, and the ‘compass-shaped island’ gives clues as to what each quarter signifies:

North are more ‘practical’ communities,
South is for the ‘intellectuals’.
West lie the communities with a ‘real life’ connection,
East those with a focus on the web itself.

Have fun,
John

denice25 · 07-29-2009, 05:05 AM

thanks for the interesting share!!!

Egwenealvere · 07-29-2009, 05:35 PM

I just found another interesting article on online etiquette by Chris Brogan "Quit pro No" and the expectation of reciprocal behavior which I would like to share Alltop, All the top Stories

Greetings,
John

Egwenealvere · 07-30-2009, 07:46 PM

Here's an article on a possible new model for social networks
Internet Evolution - Kim Solez, MD - Site Hints at New Model for Social Networks

Greetings,
John

Egwenealvere · 08-01-2009, 09:07 AM

Thanks to google finally realising that short links are more practical they came up with something completely new - smart links, basically translating the URL into English.

Google Realizes That Short Links Are Smart Links In Mobile Gmail

I hope this feature will spread the Internet soon. I guess everyone could benefit a lot from them.

Greetings,

John