Weapons of mass distraction! How to escape the social media bombs!
By Austinstar
HubPages
Actually the best social media bomb of all! Don't even try to avoid this one. It's a great place to meet other writers, would be politicians, religious nuts and great chefs. There is no end to the topics (fallout) from this cluster weapon. You can spend hours and hours trying to find your way out of the battle zone that is hubpages!
No target is safe. Any writer may write about any topic at any time. There are few restrictions on your creative attacks. Just be exclusive to hubpages and you are pretty free to use your weapons in any manner you choose to win the war! Your hub score is an indication of your body count. Capture the enemies attention with such missiles as:
50 Reasons why HubPages is so awesome!
Out of the silence - A journey through Pacific Northwest villages.
What is momentum? An intuitive understanding.
and A Survival Guide for the uninsured.
These four hubs alone can distract you for an entire day! But wait, there's more...
The Decline and Fall of Christianity: Scientific and Intellectual Indicators
and Cheesecake Anyone-Recipe To Serve 20
Who can possibly NOT fall victim to these mass distraction hubs?
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Weapons of mass distraction
Arguably the most widespread weapon of distraction, Facebook supposedly has more shrapnel (fans) than Carter has Liver Pills. Facebook has everything you could want in a social media blitzkrieg of weaponry:
- A home page
- A contact list
- Photo albums (with unlimited storage capability)
- Free invitation blasts to all your friends
- Text messaging
- Calendars and organizers galore
- Tons of free games including war games
- All of the personal information about you that you care to share
- Online notes that double as a personal diary and/or blog
- Free subscription service to any page you care to sign up for
- Your own resume and job reference list
- A Twitter type of "status update" to blast out carnage to the public and/or friends/family or any Group you care to join
- A new "timeline" adventure of your entire life so you don't have to remember your second grade teacher's name. Facebook does it for you.
- An unobtrusive advertising system that doesn't annoy people (in general). It keeps all your apps on FB free to use forever.
- Never forget anyone's birthday, anniversary, or special occasion ever again!
- Explode the virtues of your favorite music, art, philosophy, talents, etc.......
There is apparently no way to exhaust the destructive force that is Facebook. Light that fuse at your own personal peril.
[Find me on FaceBook at Ausintstar]
Twitter is small, but extremely powerful. Your tweets can be sent to everyone's smart phone in a readable length. In our fast paced world of small phone keyboards, Twitter fills the need to text when you hang up the phone yet aren't done talking.
Twitter allows any user to build a text messaging site - even when NOT driving a two ton automobile. Then you can sit at home in the comfort of your computer desk chair and bomb others who ARE driving a huge steel weapon of total annihilation! Or you can just blast other Twitterers.
Twitter is best for announcing (fore-warning) your upcoming plans or delivering your breakfast flavored burp of the day. It can also be used as a slow chat room. Enjoy.
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Blogger and WordPress and any other blog site...
Writing down your thoughts, hopes and dreams daily is something everyone should practice. Like De Greek says, "Can you imagine your great, great, great, great, grandchildren at infinitum reading the thoughts and cares you have expressed here generations before they were born? I find this possibility to be captivating."
HubPages has a good chance of remaining in business long enough for us to become immortal through our words, but some like to use personal blogs also. This will increase your chance of having your thoughts go on forever. I have my own domain name, LelaCargill.com and I encourage everyone to do the same. You can do with it what you will.
Creating your very own blog is quite distracting as there are many little pieces parts that must come together to achieve your desired goals for your permanent memorial in the war against fading off into the sunset. The end result is very satisfying and will last as long as you can pay your domain registration and hosting bill, so be sure to make provisions in your will.
[I have several blog sites, too many to list here]
YouTube!
This one is devastatingly distracting! And it's world wide destraction at that! Remember when you used to have friends and family over to watch vacation videos! They were usually boring and unprofessional. Oh no, not now!
I don't know how many YouTube videos are published at this moment, but at some point the number will actually exceed the Nation Debt of the entire United States and maybe the world. There will be more videos to watch than there are people on the planet.
But these are not the black and white soundless videos of baby Steve losing a tooth and putting it under a pillow only to find a quarter the next day. Oh no, these are quality videos that anyone and their trusty smart phones and their wicked imagination can come up with.
There are professional videos that are completely free to watch by anyone with an internet connection! The world is your battlefield here. You can bombard Tokyo with Bigfoot crushing skyscrapers. You can blow up cans of spam for everyone to watch. You can promote your business, your garage band, your wedding, just anything! The sky is not the limit. There is no limit.
Google conquers all by buying this clever little mass of distraction. They win! Long live Google!
[Subscribe to my YouTube Channel - Lot's of videos coming for 2012!]
Comments - Are you distracted yet?
Hi Bob. You know at one time I would take that row boat and give up all of the comforts of home. But age has a terrible way of making those comforts necessary. Maybe we should trade the row boat for a hammock somewhere warm.
Austin. - just watched the video - and I'm going to click on that link! What surprises will I find? Whose horse - is it yours? It's a beautiful horse! It showed beautifully! My daughter used to show horses! She's lots of ribbons and trophies:). Love it! Dave watched it too...
Excellent hub idea - you always put your brain to such good work! I didn't know you had a blog either! I do and I wrote one article:) lol. I decided to try to learn hub better. I use twitter now and love it - it is a great resource and I get sucked into you tube like a vacuum! So down I go with that link up there....lol. Up and everything!
I dont know how you find the time for all those internet interests. There must be 72 hour days in Austin Texas.
Thanks for that interesting, and very useful article.
Hi RHW - no, the horse isn't mine (I wish). I've always had a big spot in my heart for horses though and I used to go to the horse shows every year for my birthday. It's been a while since I've gone. I have given up on blogs too. HubPages is much better.
Hi Christopher - The days are long in Texas, but I mostly just try to spend about 30 minutes or so on each endeavor of mine during the day to spread things out. Being out of work is making my online life a bit more necessary.
Ah I was wishing it was yours too:) and of course - I'm supposed to be making food for Christmas but I'm being distracted:) haha
Merry Christmas to my all time favorite Hubber!!
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i like hubpages and twitter more than facebook. facebook now is one of the most biggest spammer social media
Hi Manna - Looks like you had a very distracting Christmas!
@ImChemist - FaceBook is complicated. If used correctly, it encompasses all you need for your internet viewing pleasure. You do have to tone down a lot of it. But there are things you can do on FB that cannot be done on other sites. I have learned to think of it as a giant contact list/organizer. It's too top heavy for day to day communications. But then, we do have email for that.
Weapons of mass distraction? What an apt title, Lela. Thanks for reminding us. May you have a very Happy New Year.
Hi Austinstar. Read this last night and decided to comment on a thing or two. I'm not so sure about FBs "timeline." What do you think if you don't mind the ask? Also, seen some on the hubs call it a glorified version of FB. Gotta disagree with 'em there as hubs actually has some talent on it. Happy New Years Lela!
I tried FB Timeline and decided it was a waste of time. It serves no useful purpose that can't be done elsewhere more easily. Like HP.
HubPages does indeed have some talented and even popular individuals. Hubs are bound to get a lot more popular with the addition of uploadable videos! YouTube doesn't give anywhere to tell the back story.
Very talented writer. I love the references to war in this hub to social media weapons. It was very clever and intriguing.
Thank you for the kind words! This is a war we can win! If we don't get too distracted that is.
Hi Lela,
As I was reading this creative hub, I just kept saying to myself "yep, yep, that one too." Thanks for helping me better understand myself (my distractions). I knew there were many reasons why a part-time job is good enough for me, ha.
Sharyn
great hub. up and shared!
Nice hub mate. Voted up.
A superb hilarious and creative take on how these social media bombs are taking over minutes, hours and days of our lives. Surely all the netizens around here can relate to being victims of one of these weapons of mass distraction, like you've rightly pointed out. Awesome hub!
Princesswithapen
great way of presenting these weapons...thanks for sharing this to us PDX...
How utterly creative! Your play on words is actually very true. Our mass distraction is close to destruction as we spend more and more time on these sites - some good times, some bad. I really cracked up at your reference to Carter's Little Liver Pills. I thought I was the only one in the world who still used that saying.
Your hub was truly amusing and I think I agreed with every word. Because of it's hilarity and originality I voted all buttons across the board!
I'd include Pinterest. Funny, interesting and that title is very unique. Thanks.
My husband just can't understand how I can sit on the computer for so many many hours during the day. I think I'll get him to read your hub and hopefully he'll understand why.
When I first started my love affair with the computer in 1995, I would spend hours in the chats rooms and when I walked out to the living room, Bob would ask, "Do I know you?".
He is such a card, but I have learned to DEAL with him!
diogenes 5 months ago
HI Lela: Breezy hub reminding us of our sins and pleasures online. I wonder if all you US hubbers actually meet one another? We have relatively few in the UK and I have not done so, but my great age might be part of that reason. I am on Facebook, but don't really love it...age again, I tried twitter or tweeter, or whatever, but didn't continue. I would chuck the computer and all the dubious joys of the internet for my Morgan Out Island, or even a rowboat by the tropical sea somewhere. The Internet is pure escapism. Enjoy your turkey Bobx