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My point was that some of us don't see social reading that way. We're not in disagreement on that - I don't think that these things are the core of what I think of as social reading, but it is what is often advertised as social reading. |
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There are many people over here that are trying to be hipsters and try to "socialize" and "online-ify" everything they do, being constantly busy with their phones or tablets or laptops "checking" things, and often they are extremely social but not with the company they're currently with, but by posting stuff on the internet. I don't feel *any* inclination to be that way. (I'm going to kill the next person that has to check Facebook or Twitter or e-mail three times in a minute while I'm giving him an answer to a question he just asked himself.) If I want you to know something, I'll tell you, and if I need to know anything, I'll ask you, not look it up online in a profile. And what I'm reading at this moment and what I think of it at this time, is not one of the things I constantly want to share. Maybe if something is particularly good or bad, I might write a review somewhere and that's about it. All that "social" stuff is a hype of the times, IMHO. At some point, people will get fed up with it (and realise it's not a good idea to tell everybody everything), and then it'll be gone or a lot less prominent. edit: Quote:
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Exactly. Add to that "If I want to tell something to a specified subset of people" The most things being trumpeted out are hardly of broad scale interest. |
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Find it as trite as you wish, but it's true that all we're seeing is a technological change. People may talk about trivial things on social media, but they talk about the same trivial things in person and always have. I don't use social reading, but I accept that other people may wish to. What I do doesn't have any bearing on what other people ought to do. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan...ssism-20110106 Last edited by QuantumIguana; 03-01-2013 at 03:08 PM. |
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I hope that the division between what is advertised as social and what is truly social doesn't lead us to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The complaints about social reading sullying a pure reading experience earlier in this thread remind me of nothing so much as paper book purists who complain about ebooks doing the same thing. Quote:
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I love social reading. I use Goodreads not that I have many friends there but I have a couple who we reply to each others status posts on books we are currently reading. I sometimes share snippets from something I read that made me go What the......
I don't know if it's the way of the future but I do think it's a great way for fellow readers to come together on books or a genre they love and it makes the experience more richer for everybody. |
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Fortunately, I can turn all note and highlight sharing options completely off. I wish I could turn off the "tell the world that you just finished this book" or "tell the world that you just bought this book" stuff. |
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That's not social reading. That's just free advertisements for the company/author in question. |
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Yeah you could do that but I use my one account just for Goodreads. I have friends who don't use it but like my reviews and recommendations on books. It doesn't post to your newsfeed anymore just timeline.
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