{"id":4594,"date":"2015-01-21T13:46:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:46:30","slug":"point-point-social-media-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/point-point-social-media-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point-to-Point Social Media Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like connecting with people. My initial steps into the social media world (Twitter, mostly) were enjoyable in a lot of ways. I connected with funny and nice people I wouldn’t have known otherwise. That seems to be what does it for me — funny, nice. I feel better about things, about the world, when I am around people like that.<\/p>\n

This initial group of people I interacted with felt like a community, at least for a short while. I miss that part of it. Yes, we’re around, but we’re not really glued together in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n

Twitter is a weird beast to me, and has been for a couple years. It’s like having the radio on in the background. It’s a station you have chosen to dial into, but one you actively listen to intermittently, and often times aren’t paying particularly close attention to at all. Every once in a while you catch something on the periphery of your senses, and zero in, and maybe even briefly engage with a person or a group of people.<\/p>\n

It’s not an enriching experience for me. But can it be?<\/p>\n

My life is busy, and so are all your lives. That we don’t connect, or that I don’t feel a part of something, is just something I feel, and really no one’s problem but my own.<\/p>\n

But, I can choose how I interact with people, and here’s where we get to my idea. I think it’s probably a bad idea. But here it is.<\/p>\n

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  1. I pick a single Twitter use to interact with over the course of 7 days.<\/li>\n
  2. Any tweet that would I have normally sent out to everyone will be directed only to this user.<\/li>\n
  3. I will make a point to read and comment on this user’s tweets.<\/li>\n
  4. I will still be able to interact with other people on Twitter.<\/li>\n
  5. I will not write more than 50 tweets towards my selected user over the course of those 7 days (unless there happen to be interactions and ongoing conversations with them that would inflate that number)<\/li>\n
  6. If they ask me for whatever reason to stop, I will stop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What could be the result of this?<\/p>\n