I don’t plug products on this blawg very often. However, my little sister wrote a book called Go Tweet Yourself: 365 Reasons Why Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Other Social Networking Sites Suck.
Flip Twitter the bird.
Tell Facebook to f#@% off.
Lose it on LinkedIn.
Somewhere between the advent of Facebook and launching Twitter to the masses, the Internet betrayed us. It allowed pages to be viewed by job interviewers, newsfeeds to be flooded by Aunt Julie, and for constant tweets about what color socks that random girl from the study group is going to wear today.
This book is the hilarious reply all that says: enough is enough. We don’t want to see the pictures from your business trip to Omaha. We don’t want a page-by-page account of what’s going on in Twilight. We definitely don’t want a virtual drink!
When you can’t fix the problem, fix the blame. And since there’s no way in 2.0-hell that you can put an end to the bastardization of the Book, you may as well have a good laugh while pointing the finger at those who ruined their online experience.
Go ahead. Call my bluff.
You better buy a copy of my little sister’s book.
To the FTC: Yes, I got something for recommending this book. My little sister wrote it. She gave me her sisterly love for the recommendation. Now go shit in your hat.
I don’t necessarily agree. I’m sure you’ve been exposed enough to my online “diary”. But…I will absolutely buy your sister’s book. Congrats Janelle.
Thanks big brother! And thanks Heather, both for buying and for saving a kitten.
But when/where to buy? Do tell.
As an inveterate Twitter/Facebook hater, I might have to actually _buy_ that, despite the fact that I also dislike kittens.
And I’ve been thinking about odd stuff on the innertubes lately: http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2487
Looks like an interesting read. What’s your sister’s twitter handle? I’ll buy her book if she follows me. :-P
Ha, plus she’s hot…good luck.
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Too funny. The FTC disclosure.
I’m excited to check out the book. I fanned the Facebook page and followed the Twitter page (I think it’s called Un-Tweet or something like that.)
I got a shout out that was funny :-) Not sure if the link will resolve, b/c Facebook is such a wonky piece of …
http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Go-Tweet-Yourself/111911883474?ref=mf
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