[FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

[Marcus Daniels]

I was thinking of people that, in other `real world’ settings are just checking on their smartphone what their friends or aspirational friends are up to on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and commenting in trivial ways.  Another thing I see a lot is lurker Schadenfreude type reading making fun of people they know (but don’t care about, I guess) who share their small aspects of their lives or repeat obvious things.  (Not sure which is more pathetic.)

Although FRIAM drifts around, it is topical, so I would not define it as only a social activity.   Perhaps it would be better to start on the next article in Nature, etc. but in truth the simulation or build will only take 5 or 10 minutes, and I can’t get through a paper that fast.

Marcus

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Is the FRIAM list social media?
Frank Wimberly
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On Jan 29, 2017 10:11 AM, "Marcus Daniels" <marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
Pamela writes:

“Turkle suggests all kinds of times out from technology—dinner time, before bed, that sort of thing.”

There’s conflict that is created between those people that use electronic communication non-stop for their work vs. those that don’t want to.   The former are essentially working more hours of the day.  All other things being equal, they have productivity advantage, especially for project management type tasks.

This is different than people who are glued to social media.  That’s just an addiction.

I don’t really see what the big deal is about high-volume e-mail.   For me, it is far better than the telephone.  Telephone calls often seem to represent an expectation from the caller that their disorganized wants are more important than my concentration.   E-mails can be tracked much easier than voice-mails.   They can be composed over many hours if needed as a low-priority part of multitasking. The main problem I have with e-mail is not that correspondents don’t respond with low latency, it is that they forget to or don’t treat it as a serious type of communication.  I usually give up on working closely with such people unless they have some exceptional ability or knowledge that I need.   Whether people use e-mail concisely, and to a lesser extent, quickly, is a pretty good predictor of how good of a coworker they will be.

Marcus

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