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Instagram Profile Pages Are Here

I always found it strange that Instagram was a mobile only service. So I did a little research and read that they were working toward making your profiles and photo libraries available online at some point.

Well that some point for me was this week: instagram.com/darylmcmullen

I absolutely love the look and feel of the pages. SO glad I decided to switch to Instagram 269 mobile images ago :)

Posted 6 months ago

Tags: instagram, profiles,

The “Twitter Effect”

It occurred to me a while back that my mind just isn’t what it used to be. It’s not as fast, not as coherent and definitely not as cohesive.

But unlike everything else - I don’t believe it has to do with age.

Instead I’m going to call it the “Twitter Effect.” No, I can’t blame Twitter - but will use the name to represent the many available social media outlets that I (we) use every day.

My theory: Using social media has made me ADD.

Remember the days when you could sit down and read an entire book in one sitting? Okay - me either, but at least a couple chapters in a row without falling asleep?!
Then came the blogs. Shorter and easier to “browse” so you only read the good stuff.
And don’t get me started on email - some short, some long - all important and urgent! Hundreds of little tasks you forgot you had to accomplish…
Then Facebook came along with it’s short bursts of information. Of course you had to read it all because they were your friends - right?
Next Twitter took the paragraph and shortened it to 140 characters.
And now I live on Instagram. Pictures tell stories and you technically don’t have to read anything if you don’t want to.

So what has all this “technological advancement” done to me? To my brain?

I think it’s made me ADD!

I find more and more that my mind moves 100mph - but with no real destination. I wasn’t that way 10 years ago. I could focus for long periods of time - even on boring topics!

Now it’s like my mind is constantly surfing my Twitter feed - 30 different topics in 30 different tweets.

I try to pray, but 20 seconds in and I’m having to bring myself back from 5 different mental tangents…

Is it just me?

Posted 4 months ago

Tags: twitter, social media, instagram, facebook, ADD, ADHD, focus,

Times Are a Changing

I read an article over at Social Media Today by Fraser Robinson that basically sums it all up for me.

Microblogging is quickly taking over. And not just microblogging, but those platforms like Instagram and Pinterest that are highly visual with images and associated captions/content.

I started out as a fairly regular blogger, writing 250-700 word posts with incredibly useful and life-changing content. :) These posts were typically work related on topics I felt my readers would be interested in. And I’d throw in the occasional personal post just to keep it real.

But about a year ago I made the switch from blogger to microblogger.

I was already microblogging - just decided to let go of the large, bloated blogging thing.

I moved to Tumblr so I would still have the ability to do a wide range of things - but quickly realized my values had changed as well.

I think I came to the realization that I wasn’t reading peoples personal blogs any more for technical information. I have my 10-20 favorite blogs I follow and trust (things like Engadget, Mashable, etc.) and that’s where I go for my tech fix. So why would I keep putting content out there that the professionals already have available?

And that’s where microblogging filled the gap.

I can still do a post every now and then about a topic other tech geeks would find useful. But for the most part I post about life, experiences, things I like, and things that I find wrong with the world.

Basically, today I live here: