Social media sites are trying to take over my life!

Today I received an invitation to yet ANOTHER social media site. The e-mail subject line read: “You’ve been invited to Plaxo!” I literally gasped in fear of having to complete another new profile page and come up with ANOTHER blasted witty status update every day.

The invitation came from a well-connected colleague who already had 90 “friends” on Plaxo. Sweat beads formed on my brow as I made the conscious decision not to succumb to more electronic peer pressure. No – I’m not doing it. I won’t click the glowing “register here” button designed to subliminally entice me to join.

I already have profiles on Twitter, Linked In, Smaller Indiana, Metromix, Facebook and the outdated, MySpace (does anyone still use MySpace?). I write a daily, turned weekly, I mean monthly – almost never, blog that has gotten neglected because I’m too busy meddling into the lives of other people trying to find out “what they’re doing.”
It’s come to the point that I have to check myself.

At 2:00 on a Monday afternoon, why do I even CARE what they’re doing? I should be working... so should THEY! LOL! Instead, I’m caught up in an Internet voyeuristic cyclone of status updates and mundane feedback like, “I’m eating a cheeseburger at Rally’s,” and before I know it, it’s time to leave for the day.

This has to stop. Dear cyber-gods, hear my plea. My name is Keianna Rae Harrison, I am a social media junkie, and I need help.

Today I’m joining SM-Anonymous, a group for people who have too many social media profiles and no real lives. My Facebook/Twitter status for the next few days will read: Keianna Rae has left the building. She cannot have anymore friends or join another e-gang.
Thanks! ~Keianna's Social Media Sponsor

Written by Keianna Rae Harrison
Special to Metromix