Comments on: Social Bankruptcy?

By: Pownce Shutting Down » Solo Technology

Pownce Shutting Down » Solo Technology — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:48:02 +0000

[...] I deleted my Pownce account a couple months ago in an effort to resolve some social bankruptcy challenges. I’ve never tried Vox but can’t say I’m feeling a strong urge… I’m [...]

By: Interesting Updates » Solo Technology

Interesting Updates » Solo Technology — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:51:51 +0000

[...] – I first mentioned BeTwittered in passing in my Social Bankruptcy post. It is one of many clients for Twitter, the popular [...]

By: Sorry Twitter But It’s You, Not Me. » Solo Technology

Sorry Twitter But It’s You, Not Me. » Solo Technology — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:55:56 +0000

[...] month ago I was pondering social bankruptcy, but since then I really hadn’t made any changes–until today. The recent and frequent [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:09:45 +0000

@Rich – too young for CB scene, eh? Don’t make me print your birth date here…

I guess I can say I never created a MySpace, for what that’s worth. But yeah, closing or deleting the unused or undesired options seems like a good idea. If I could figure out, for sure, which those will be.

@Mark – I miss the early Leisure Suit Larry games Boy, those were fun. I guess they were even somewhat social as I always had a friend or two coming over to join in for solving the puzzles…

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:38:18 +0000

Though I am ‘only’ 31, I sometimes think back to times where I only used a computer to play Leasure Suit Larry…:)

Nowadays, communication with computers is taking up way too much time for everyone. I sometimes simply delete one or two days of e-mail (of course not at work ), people will contact me again or by phone if it was really important…

By: Rich Griffith

Rich Griffith — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:24:44 +0000

I’ve scaled WAY back as well. Last time I cut back I cancelled accounts as well. Dropped them. Figuring if I were on them people could rightly assume I would check them. I’m on myspace? Must be going to log in… send a myspace shout out. So… killed it. Killed my space, ugh, there were/are more.

Slowly I’ve resigned up to some of them… I don’t go though. they just sit there like abandoned washing machines in my trailer’s front yard (I don’t live in a trailer; nor do I have washing machines in the front yard.)

So yeah. I’m socialed out. I like twitter for the phone part. I like it for quick passed note in school feel. I was never part of the CB scene. I was far too young back then. *grin* And RE: twitter, yeah. Some ppl just tweet too much and scroll everybody else off the page. I don’t tend to keep those sorts.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:37:35 +0000

@nathan – thanks for the thoughts. I’m doing more or less the same thing, but a bit differently.

Some networks I’m just dropping out of. I’m “self-regulating” how often I hit Google Reader and pretty much ignoring it during the working day (ok, well I check over lunch…).

But only following 5 or 6 in Twitter? Nope! I think it gets more interesting with more variety. That being said, I *am* cutting back on folks who are overly “verbose.” And if I’m busy, I kill the twitter client to cut out the distraction.

Still pondering the whole thing though… not ready for full bankruptcy but definitely evaluating all the distractions one by one.