Social Media: Unlocking the Awesome Potential of Behavioral Disorders

After our recent banter surrounding Executive ADD, I thought I'd share this hilarious venn diagram from Despair.com's blog on social media:

"A gorgeous, 8-color masterpiece which captures ever so brilliantly the three behavioral disorders propelling the continued phenomenal growth of today’s most widely-trafficked social media sites. And at the intersection of the dysfunctional forces of Narcissism, ADHD, and Stalking resides today’s fastest growing social media experiment of all- Twitter..."

Comments

[Vjor]

Phil,

First - I really enjoy your blog! Meaningful insights and fun reading in a balanced mix. Thanks and keep it up.

Your comment re linkedin - Yes I also see some benefits, and I'd like to hear your thoughts what the good parts are.

Regards,
Bjorn

[Phil Fersht]

Anupam,

Ask the Despair.com guys... I'd have it in there. However, people tend to use LinkedIn as more of a professional-connections database and networking tool, than an active social tool where they interact "real time". It's also not as cool or personable as Twitter or Facebook, despite being incredibly useful :)

PF

[Anupam Tantri]

Phil, you forgot LinkedIn. Perhaps you ran out of colors and empty "venns"!!