What you can do with your social media rules…

This post can be found at my current blog here:

http://mollybob.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/what-you-can-do-with-your-social-media-rules/

Sorry about the confusion, I was typig too fast to notice I put it on my old (no longer used) blog here.

Every so often I come across posts and declarations about particular social media platforms where people are laying down rules about how I will use a platform. They’re telling me how it’s going to be.  I have never responded particularly well to such outbursts, mostly because I consider myself intelligent enough to think for myself, and consider someone blindly telling me what to do as a gesture that disrespects me as an individual… but when it comes to social media, it’s not just my attitude toward blindly following authority that’s the problem, it’s about something different.

I see social media as a social construct. Let me briefly explain what I mean there. ..