Wednesday, August 5, 2009

OOOH... Wacky Wednesday Time!

I almost forgot today's Wacky Wednesday post! I've been saving this one... and almost forgot it...
Sadly, we all know that once "Back to School" is over in the stores, signs like this will be popping up all over the place!

Anti-Social ~ Social Networking

Here is a question I pose to myself today. Anyone reading can feel free to post a comment in response...

Can a person who is anti-social by nature really succeed in Social Networking?

Its odd, because in most circumstances, I would consider myself anti-social. Life has made me that way, sadly. I moved around a lot as a child, 5 states in my first 18 years. Heck, halfway through my senior year it came time to move again so I started school after Christmas break in a whole new state/school. It wasn't easy, and has had both positive and negative effects on me. I am fiercely independent and can handle most anything life hands me on my own... but part of me longs for the human contact of friends, etc that I shelter myself from even to this day.

So here we get back to the question. How does being anti-social affect both being a WAHM and Social Networking? It seems that social networking is a huge part of the WAHM culture, and has been for a long time. Being relatively anti-social has made that aspect of "relationship marketing" and social networking difficult for me. I don't have anything to talk about in the forums, I don't seem to "fit in" most of the time. I join social networks (like Ning) but after a short time the "networking" aspect becomes more like work to me and I just stop. I usually don't even get to the point where people get to know the "real" me at all.

So how does being anti-social work with social networking? So far, not so good.