Kleske: Is life only for sharing?
Long-time blogger Johannes Kleske is rethinking his way of sharing content on the web. I like how he’s questioning what has become common on the web.
Sharing the right content associates me with the “awesomeness” of the creator of the content. It’s ego-branding for lazy people like me. The problem with this is that it kinda has the same brand building effect as a big corporation trying to hijack a street culture trend, it is short term and shallow. I’ve just started to reflect my own behavior here, but I think I want to change it a bit.
There’s a certain difference between plain sharing and curating for me. Sharing (the kind that’s mostly happening on the social web these days) is retweeting, tumblr-ing (sorry, not really a word) and linking random content. Curating (for me) is about scouting mostly new content and putting it into context. I want to do more curating. I want to do less sharing and more writing which is my preferred way of putting things into context. And I also want to go back to actually engage with the content that others share with me and not only pass it on.
Read the full article here. Make sure to read the comments, too.
