Is Social Media a Waste of Time? | WIRED

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Whether you’re every other freelance blogger at your local coffee shop (latte in hand) or a small business owner struggling to keep the lights on, it’s certainly a question worth pondering. The answer to such a question, relayed to us by a faceless sea of “gurus,” “experts” and tech start-up superstars is a resounding “Of course not,” or at the very least, “Well, I guess it depends.”

Let’s cut to the chase. It’s hard to deny the notion that our social presence online has truly become an extension of ourselves off. Facebook’s new policy allowing for Internet “immortality” further cements this reality. Our existence offline is becoming less removed from our existence online, meaning that if we’re making connections and doing business in the “real world,” the same rules should apply on the web, right?

Source: www.wired.com

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