Four weeks ago I had 5,250 emails in my inbox. Today? 10. What’s the difference? I’ve been on lots of airplanes in the past month. Why is that important? Because in airplanes there’s no Internet. Nothing to distract you. I find I can answer about 10x more email in a plane than I can on the ground when the Internet is there to distract me. That taught me an important lesson.
How Much of a Distraction is Social Media?
In Friday’s post, I admitted the social media can be a waste of time. I talked about doing some unproductive things online and how, despite that (or even because of that), marketers should be paying a LOT of attention to social media marketing. But as many of you have commented in the first post, social media is really not a waste o
Social Media as a Distraction
Social media is a waste of time. There, I said it. Yesterday, I read a long blog post by a guy I’ve never actually met. Then I read all the comments. Then I left a comment, offering advice he asked for. It made me no money. It gave me no leads. It helped me cross nothing off my to do list. I fell a few minutes “further behind.”
CellphediaThe Next Distraction From Driving, Dinner, And All Things Not Lame
Could we stop making up words, please? It was cute at first, but now it’s terribly annoying as the squiggly red lines on my word processor stretch across my screen candy cane style. Thanks to an NYU grad student, we get to add another word to the effluvium of techno-jargon logorrhea.