Using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, YouTube, I have been able to help others understand Credit,while supplementing my income and providing a much better standard of living for my family. You cannot tell me this does not work, I am living proof it does.

This is my first book released totally online, with NO publisher. The first two cost me money, “When Bad Credit Happens To Good People” has been incredibly profitable.

I am not so sure that I am the only one profiting from Social Media either. I use it to reconnect with friends and family as well.

We are in a new age folks, put your head in the sand at your peril. I for one choose to ride the wave.. I get to help people, solve terrible problems, while enriching my family, and community. What more is there again?

Actually, the same exact thing could be said of the (over)reaction by those who think the “Motrin Moms” were over-reacting to begin with. Seems that everyone wants their 15 minutes worth of fame.

And the as is not clearly innocuous to many people. That you say so is a sweet rhetorical trick and ad hominem attack, nothing more. But nice try. You should write for an ad agency.

Social media I think is a easiest way sorry to connect not only bloggers, but also a forum for end consumers. However, just like in any kind of media where trial by publicity is always possible.

Meanwhile, civil rights are being trampled, people are out of work, and Haitian mothers have to choose which child lives and dies— and THIS is getting the attention… seriously, be careful how you go about your legacy.

Now, about the marginalizing of dads…

Apparently social media movements will be all about incessant navel gazing-inspired whining.

I think there’s a great deal of truth in Zach’s comment. Social media are a huge time sink that generate so much mock outrage and overzealous posturing that they leave little time for introspection and thoughtful attention to what’s really important (foreclosures, job loss, global climate change, the sorry state of education in this country…). Read 1984 or Farenheit 451 lately? Not to be totally paranoid, but even if this isn’t intentional, it is beneficial to those who have profited in the process of creating the current mess.

The only thing to come out of this in my opinion is the fact that there are a lot of people out there so very willing to take something so clearly innocuous and blow completely out of proportion using such simple minded interpretations of what was actually said or meant by an ad.

So, when someone asks me, “what’s this social media thing anyway”, there is little to stop me from telling them that its a part of the internet where people who think they are a lot more important than they really are gather around faux celebrities who think they are even more important than the aforementioned group, waste obscene amounts of time and money, and in the end produce no real worthwhile results for society as a whole.

And as much as I enjoy tweeting, facebooking, and scrolling through endless blog entries and comments I’m sorry to say that it’s the damned truth and if “new media” doesn’t watch what they are doing they will quickly find them selves in the exact same position that “old media” is currently facing.

Now, excuse me while I go post this to my blog and tweet about it.