It's 4:31 in the morning, still working on my computer.
I've become obsessed with Blog recently, every night I spend hours adjusting the layout, template, color, links, gadgets... You might have the same feeling as well, when you are managing a social media account, the figures in stats just itch you so much so that you literally refresh the page over and over to see if there's new page visit, then you go through all sorts of social media to spread the link of your new post as if the entire world would actually click through and see it. There are over 3 billions Internet user around the world, yet only a few come across your blog during their voyage in the ocean of information.
Recently I just discovered another website collecting and sharing social platform called "Wakelet", you collect interesting articles, news, webpages, pictures and put in a "Wake" to share with other people, to allow people to follow a certain topic, like Google Alerts but it's manually made by Internet people and much more nicely decorated. So here I am, working hard to explore this new field of social addiction.
Really our lives have become incredibly attached to all kinds of social network, every tech company wants people to spend a little more time on their website, and every individual in turn hopes other people to linger on his own blog, page whatever longer. It's like a giant social attachment chain, we are literally hooked and having so much fun from it.
Now it's 5.00 already, social media has deprived so much sleep from me these days, yet today I started writing blog in Chinese on Chinese social websites such as Douban, Baidu... as if already regularly managing Facebook page, blog, Youtube channel, twitter, website and Wakelet all in the same time isn't making me busy enough, oh and I forgot to mention that I have to manage some Chinese social media accounts for the company I'm part-timely working for.
What do I really want from all these? What is it behind the number of views, visits that matters so much to one's life?
I suppose the answer should be that there are people who just love creating contents, sharing opinions and seeking discussions with others, there are also people enjoy reading, learning, absorbing knowledge and exploring new areas on the Internet. These two types of people represent the essential purpose and philosophy of the entire social media. Covering that, is the giant information consume chain as exoskeleton. More often than not, however, we get lost in the enormous amount of information and forget about the initial purpose.
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