Last night while lying in bed, reading my RSS, Your Web AddiCT came accross the following post entitled Anti-Social Media
It’s always refreshing to find people that don’t believe the hype.
Mediocrity is the only possible result of a wide sampling of opinion or input. The only idea that can survive such a mechanism is one consistent with the lowest common denominator. The mob works to ensure that all other results are weeded out. Now, we might think that it is the highest common denominator that is promoted in this environment, but it’s just not so. The “highest” anything is largely held by the masses as being discriminatory and elitist. So only the lowest common denominator wins out. The point is that in this sort of environment excellence does not survive.
Read more about Anti-Social Media (well worth the read) and pop in your 2.0 cents in the form of a comment…
