I red some comments on socialomania and must say that didn’t expect that, so many people do agree with me in the point that some kind of addiction exist with that all web 2.0 stuff and said that they have at least some of the defined symptoms. Thought Socilaolism article had also humorous site. So do not take is for ultimate truth. However web2.0 consumes time.

Dear reader did you also notice how many time consumes social-networking?

Addicted or not why it is so? Why do we spend so much time in social networks? I think modern people have not much time to spend it with living friends (which is not so good). This lies almost in the fact that doing something with people directly require synchronization of all participants. Social networking allows you to stay in touch asynchronously, it allows you to do your “social doing” when you have time, at least it should. But as we see this happens it time when you have to do other things and work, in effect we the social doing over internet may degrade to socialolism or socialomania or whatever you call it.

Definition

Socialolism is a strong addiction to Internet applications of social nature. Malignant versions of Socialolism arise just in that times when the affected person has many boring things to do (e.g. Work), even when that things are important.

Common Symptoms

There are some common Symptoms of Socialolism, knowing them will help you to identify the problem.

• Strong desire to open browser and check messages in some Social network during a small pause in Work (e.g. build or deployment process).
• Lingering and strong desire to open own blog or site and look for new comments.
  • Worst: Desire is still there when there are no new comments
  • Worstiest: Desire is still there, even there are newer been some comment on this site before.
• Watching also Youtube videos, that are related to video you actually receives form your colleague.
• Writing new post in your blog during work time.
• Updating your profile in Social-Network-Site instead of doing important homework.
• Checking every digg.com like site on new votes for stories committed by concerned person.
• Opening browser (for very very last time) just before start of durable and boring business.
• Reading Wikipedia more than intentionally intended.
• More than onece a day check of visitor statistic on own sites.

Known places of danger on the Internet

Every addiction has some objects that povoke concerned people. The places where socialolists (people afflicted with socialolism) try to satisfy their addiction are well known. That are blogs (especially own ), Forums, Classmate and Co-Worker networks, Youtube like sites and the whole palette of web2.0 sites like digg.com wich provide social components.

Demarcation of Concepts

Socialolism is not so bad like internetmania which is considered as disease. No, it rather bad consuetude or addiction. It should also not be mistaken for egosurfing, wikipediholism or even photo-lurking. Sure this can have relation, but these sings are real strange. Against them socialism should know nearly every modern Internet user i think. Such statistic bases of cause on my personal notice .

Nevertheless Socialolism must be very close to problems like luck of concentration, idleness and maybe that’s the point!

How to cure

I’m not sure. Don’t connect to Internet? Sure this helps, but it is not pro rata. Just try to do such thing that are more interesting than Social sites? It’s often impossible. Hope to provide you some exercises against socialolism in the future.

P.S. Please notice that article has also ironical site.

I’m impressed about pligg functions, and configuration posibilities, so i think i can use pligg in my future project. But I’m not impressed by the current version. Of cause it’s beta version, but we know other kind of betas (e.g. google applications) that do not breaks on every second click. And if you decide to install some additional plug-ins on this version, be aware, it can make, the situation only worthiest.

Unfortenytely I can’t use this version productively. I hope the Pligg people will soon fix existing bugs in next betas, or even they will makes us happy with very stable version 1.0.

By the way, does anybody know when pligg version 1.o is planed to be released? I read somewhere just meaningless “hopefully soon”.

P.S. The default template of pligg looks bad too, but that is another story.