Navigating the seas of online social networking can be tough.
Yep, this is another comic making fun of circles on Google+.
Oh, look! What a lovely bandwagon. Let me just get on it and find a comfy seat…..
Circled by Danger
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Push off
If superheroes had Push Notifications turned on, they would never get a moments rest.
Some heroes do have the equivalent of push notifications via “emergency notification” signalling devices that can be used in times of need. The only ones I can think of are:
- Batman (via Bat signal and the Hotline in the Commissioners office)
- Superman (via that silly watch he gave to Jimmy Olsen)
- The JLA (via the JLA signal devices)
- Fantastic Four (via the FF Flare gun)
- Atom Ant (via his mainframe computer)
I am sure there are more than these in comic world.
Push notifications are the annoying little voices that you let into your life via your smartphone.
Most apps these days will politely request if they can send you notifications.
They ask so nicely, that you think “Sure, why not?” and hit OK.
THEN they start their devious work.
They remind you about upgrades. They tell you what friends are doing. They let you know if you are popular enough to have recieved a tag or a message. And they NAG.
That is really what they are doing. It is electronic nagging and you get used to it.
I believe this is only the first step in preparing humans to accept robot wives or husbands in the future. Bythe time they exist, we will already have been conditioned to do what they say. Of course, WE will think that we are the ones incontrol.
This will not be the thruth however, and when the machines finally take over, we won’t even notice….
Dependants
I know people who spend more time on their social networks than they do with their kids.
I can already imagine the psychologists and therapists that are wringing their hands in delight at the thought of this.
Very soon, there will be people who need help to get over their abandondment issues caused directly by the lack of attention they are recieving right now.
But you need to face facts here – Being popular on a social network is a full time job. If you are serious about it, you gotta put in the hours.
The internet gods know this, which is why games exist. Then the kids can be kept occupied killing imaginary things, or doing challenges that they will never need to replicate, while the adults talk to people that are not actually there.
See how life just sort of works out evenly?
The Fun Circles
Google+ is here.
And it has circles. Circles for you to put groups of people into.
Despite all the other debate that G+ (that is what the cool kids like me call it) has spurned, I am here to help out with something that I feel is really truly important – naming the circles so they mean something to the user.
Sure, Google+ offers some default circle names to start you off, but you want these groups to really mean something to you. Right?
So get creative and make names that work for you. Use titles that will help you remember who is in the circle.
And above all, just enjoy it.