“Are we on the verge of seeing a rebellion? As we know more and more people are adopting various elements of the social web as part of their daily lives”.
Behold, the opening of yet another ambiguous blog post on the somewhat heralded “econsultancy” (i’m surprised they aren’t still spelling it e-consultancy) entitled “Social media monitoring: time to say ’sod it’? It’s a rather queer article which talks about how social media monitoring is just a fad and soon there will be too much data to handle. As Shakespeare once tweeted “WTF”.
We have a policy of not naming names but rather pointing fingers at a group of people not an individual, however the title was too good to let go. But it also serves another purpose. By using the names “Econsultancy” in the title it’s clearly marked out should they by some twist of ironical fate actually be monitoring conversations themselves. Heaven forbid!
But what am i really getting at? Well the problem is quite obvious, it’s a plague of carelessly placed words, “opinions” put together by maladroit blogger’s who know they ‘just have to write something’ but really have nothing to say. Although, i do i think that the freedom to share your opinion is a great thing but i still believe that journalism, and by that i mean JOURNALISM, is still fundamentally important and if you position yourself as such (or such and such) then there must be standards. Surely there must be standards???
Even MashableMashable
can be accused of pointless articles that are much ado about nothing. Such as, “Which meta-blogging social network do you most facebook like readers poll” or “Evan William’s feeds his dog bird flavoured mega-chunks”. Yawn.
So…. is it time to say ’sod it’ and go find some people who know what they are talking about? Or… start that rebellion we were talking about and tell these sites that if they have nothing to say then, as the poet Ronan Keating put it “Just say nothing at all”.
Are there any other sites equally as guilty of “filler”? Are you an avid reader of Econultancy and firmly believe everything they write is “jolly spot on” then have it out in the comments below, we would be interested in hearing your thoughts…
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