social media tools and the war against stress: potluck
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It is true. Social media has gotten way out of hand. It becomes more and more unfriendly, time-sucking, hostile (sometimes) and stressful. In the beginning the situation was very different. People were more friendly, opened and willing to interact with strangers. Today we have hostility, closed worlds, barriers, restrictions and a lot of stress. It does not have to be this way. We can return to that friendly environment of the beginning. Let's see how.TRANSCRIPT
In the beginning social media was very different:
• People were more friendly• People were more ... open• People liked to interact with strangers• Less barriers or restrictions
Now social media has gotten way out of hand:
• More and more unfriendly• More and more time-sucking• More and more stressful • More and more restrictions
It doesn’t have to be this way.
We can remove the stress
from our lives and business.
Let me introduce you to Potluck
“A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of people may contribute a dish of food prepared by the person or the group of people, to be shared among the group.”
(Source: Wikipedia)
What is Potluck?Potluck.it is a new social network made by
the same team which created Branch. Two of them are Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone.
Why Potluck?Less stressInterest-orientedLink-orientedPrivacy-orientedRemoves the
pressure of being a brand or a big name
Less restrictionsMore comfort
No performance pressure (no need to post content that gets more likes)
No need to be coolLess noiseNo sharing pressureGreat to make new
friends
Joining Potluck
Fairly short presentation
Go to https://www.potluck.it. You will see a screen like the following:
Click Sign Up on the upper right hand side. You will see the following screen:
Type your first name, last name, username, email and password, then click Join Potluck. You'll get a
friendly welcome message:
Just click the arrow on the right and enjoy the tour.
Click Go. Start the tour.
Connect your social accounts or skip this step.
Now you are asked to post a link.
Edit the title of your link. Choose a topic or grab it from the link itself. If you don't know what to write,
click grab from link. Then click Post.
I pasted a link to a particular and controversial article of mine. Potluck extracts the image from your post.
Search for friends who are already on Potluck.
Add your friends.
Now you are ready. You can see your feed (actually mine).
Check your settings and make any necessary changes.
That’s all folks. Thank you for watching.
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