This is a doozy.

I have written about this often, I will have to copy and paste or rewrite it again here. I have been stuck thinking about this since the time of Google Buzz (2008?) and soon after the fall of Google Reader. We are on the wrong track with social media and it isn’t hard to set ourselves up for better habits.

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