Seth Godin-是我非我
是我非我
作者Seth Godin,发表于 Seth的博客 (作者授权翻译. 未经作者和译者许可 请勿转载.)
时常有人给我写Email,却在信里问“这真的是您吗?”。
这个问法当然不算高明。要是我真的悄悄安排助理我回信,问这种问题也不会戳穿我的花招的。 你得考虑用纳瓦霍语问或者跟我对密码,才有可能辨认到底是不是我。
不过,反正我手下也没有员工,光杆司令一个。(虽然有个手下对于Tim来说挺好的)
由此就有了这篇文章。我不用Twitter。那不是真实的我。我也不常上Facebook,不加好友,虽然我的确有个帐号以备不时之需。我不用Flickr,不用MySpace,不用Meebo。
理由很简单,有两点:首先,对于此类工具,我要么充分使用,要么完全不用。浅尝辄止还不如干脆就不碰,毕竟大家都不喜欢若有若无的联系。其次,我又不喜欢在和别人的互动中、或是在和我的工具之间又加上员工这一层。我认为这两点相辅相成,可惜的是这同时也构成了矛盾。如果你既要每天工作又想纵情于各种各样的社交媒体,你就需要有员工来帮你。Scoble可以随时随地的发贴子,因为他只干这一件事而已。
1993年,我们曾在工作网络上安了个简单的聊天程序。我记得它的名字叫SnapMail。很快我就发觉自己每天花在上面的时间有三四个小时。我对SnapMail很在行,而工作效率则大大降低。于是我们把它卸了。这东西挺好玩,但是对于我们的目标却毫无帮助。
所以,别担心是不是我在回信。是我本人,我告诉你了。
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Every once in a while, someone sends me an email saying, “Is this really you?”
Of course, it’s a silly question, since if an admin were secretly responding to my mail, a question like this certainly doesn’t end the subterfuge. You’d need to do something like ask in Navajo or some secret code.
Anyway, I don’t have a staff. It’s just me. (Though having a staff seems to work really well for Tim.)
Which leads to this post. I don’t use Twitter. It’s not really me. I also don’t actively use FaceBook, and I’m not adding any friends, though I still have an account for the day when I no doubt will. I also don’t use Flickr or MySpace or Meebo.
My reasoning is simple, and it has two parts. First, I don’t want to use a tool unless I’m going to use it really well. Doing any of these things halfway is worse than not at all. People don’t want a mediocre interaction. Second, I don’t want to add a layer of staff between me and the tools I use and the people I interact with. I think both of these ideas go together, and unfortunately, they’re also a paradox. If you want to be in multiple social media and also have a day job, you’re going to need a staff. Scoble is the poster child for being everywhere, all the time, but it’s all he does.
In 1993, we installed a primitive form of chat on our network at work. I think it was called SnapMail. I discovered pretty quickly that I was spending three or four hours a day using it. I was really good at it. And I also didn’t get as much done as I needed to. So we ripped it out. Just because it was stimulating doesn’t meant it helped with our goal.
So, please don’t worry if it’s really me. If it’s me, I’ll tell you here.
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