The Downside to Social Networking

If you are a parent you can relate to why I equate social networking to extracurricular activities for children.  The problem is as a parent you can have your child into so many extracurricular activities that it ends up affecting your child's academic performance and costs you a lot in terms of time, energy and gasoline just getting your child to each extracurricular activity.  In some cases especially if you have more than one child extracurricular activities can actually undermine the family dynamics affecting family relationships.  Essentially this is not putting first things first, a fundamental principle of personal leadership by Stephen R. Covey.  Extracurricular activities are very important for children but if they overshadow the fundament, life guiding values such as education and family values then they end up being detrimental.  The same can be said of social networking in relationship to blogging.

Social networking includes groups, forums and sites like Twitter, Digg, and Facebook.  These sites are wonderful for promoting your blog(s) and they can result in a lot of traffic however, they can take your focus off of what is important, your blog(s).  If your blog(s) does not get regular tweaking, frequent posts and the attention it really deserves no amount of promoting it is going to help.  Social networking takes a lot of time and energy.  As a result they take away from the time you could spend blogging, adding quality content to your blog(s).  Social networks should be used to accent your blogging experience but never to hinder it.  If your spending too much time on social networks and not enough time blogging then at some point one of them is going to give and chances are very good it will be blogging.

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