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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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What Is the Biggest Problem With Social Media?
Tribes was about the nee an opportunity for leadership in an era where we are splintering away from mass. When i talk about social media, i do not mean human beings need to be social when we use electronics. What we end it up with is a place, particularly with face books, where attention is sold to the highest bidder. The third problem is that in every open network where anonymity is tolerated, trolls show up. They always have. And the challenge that you have when you are selling attention and opening your door wide for anonymous trolls would never be tolerated in the real world. You can't wear mask over your face and start insulting people in the middle of a restaurant.
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