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darksumomo

Here I go again

Jan 16, 2011 03:09

Every time I get involved enough with a group online, I either get run off or made a leader. As I wrote in No, I am not born to be "prime minister."

I keep being selected as a leader in online communities. One of my offices is Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler, which is described as a dictator--not that I ever ran it that way. Instead, I ran it ( Read more... )

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mercat January 16 2011, 08:50:44 UTC

I think this happens to anyone who is in the least bit capable, fairly smart, but has a good enough interest to actually get things done. Even if you didn't plan to "do much", if you are the only person not procrastinating totally, I've learned that means you usually get stuck doing it. (Whatever "it" may be.)

For college extracurriculars I've learned to just flat-out say no to positions that require a lot of my time. In high school they were useless titles where I had no respect and got no real responsbility except to enforce other people's rules (eh... for the most part. Some groups were better than others), and what I took away from that is that I am tired of a title that gets me no respect but bitching from both sides of the equation.

WOO.

Anyway though... good luck. :)

mercat January 16 2011, 08:59:01 UTC

Woops, borked the html.

darksumomo January 16 2011, 15:42:35 UTC

It happens. I've learned to preview any comment in which I've used HTML.

darksumomo January 16 2011, 15:41:36 UTC

Thank you.

As for what you wrote, true, but they had a big talent pool--339,342 fans on Facebook--and they picked me out within two weeks. That's what I find most amazing.

mercat January 16 2011, 17:07:01 UTC

Yeah... If anything though, facebook harbors (and encourages) a lot of slacktivists. =/

darksumomo January 16 2011, 20:11:36 UTC

No kidding. A friend of mine said of Facebook, "This is a waste of time." I told her that was the entire point--to turn people wasting time into a profit-making opportunity. She deactivated her account for a week after that.

mercat January 16 2011, 20:34:01 UTC

I've spent a lot less time on facebook since I decided (with the help of leaving for drum corps for three months, haha) to stop playing the games. They are addictive, for sure, and I did spend a little money on them before realizing that it was not really the "waste of time" I was looking for. I can get more valuable entertainment for free reading scientific blogs and stuff.

darksumomo January 16 2011, 22:13:14 UTC

I quit playing the games, too. Zynga made it too difficult to play Cafe World by making my food spoil much faster and I quit in a huff. I decided it was a better use of my time to work, write for Examiner.com, and blog.

Also, glad to read that drum corps weaned you off those time sinks, although I wonder if you could have played them on your cellphone. Speaking of which, I'm now imagining what my drum corps experience would have been like if I had a cell phone 30 years ago. I probably would have had a lot of calls from my mom.

mercat January 17 2011, 02:54:05 UTC

I'm completely amazed games haven't programmed and sold independent apps for phones, because you can't get flash games on the iphone and stuff, but I'm sure they'd pull in tons of more hours of players and advertisements.

As for phones on tour, I personally am not a big phone user. I texted a little and twittered a little. But it does cause problems for some people--people who can't escape drama with boyfriends or girlfriends at home, people who give up one day in and call home and cry and ignore everyone else, all sorts of absolutely wonderful drama. It's times like those I'm glad I'm not much of a phone user.

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