{"id":1083,"date":"2013-06-18T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2013-09-17T00:49:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T04:49:05","slug":"the-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/the-social\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Futility of Comparing Yourself to Other<\/a> is you\u2019re comparing your reality to an ideal, a fantasy.<\/p>\n

Social Media and the endless Sharing Culture built around it puts us in competition with our peers, friends, family and strangers constantly.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to compare. I don’t want to share. I don’t want to compete. Social features are turn offs to me. I don’t want to post anything to anywhere. If I want to make a post about it, I will take it upon myself to do that, and perhaps link to a public page or screenshot.<\/p>\n

But I don’t want to tell everyone about everything I do all the time.<\/p>\n

I use Goodreads<\/a> not to share what I read but simply to track books. I use the recommendations sometimes but I ignore the rest of the site. I use it mostly from my iPhone and I update my progress through the book(s) I am reading.<\/p>\n

I have friends there. But I don’t follow them. I don’t care what they’re reading. That’s not why I use the site. If I could turn off the Social I would.<\/p>\n

I love Pinboard<\/a>. It bills itself Social Bookmarking for Introverts<\/em> and is true to its word. I can follow other people so I can see their public bookmarks. I don’t. That’s all the Social there is to it.<\/p>\n

The best thing about Pinboard is it allows me to send information to it.<\/p>\n