Should You Do It Just Because Everyone Else Is Doing It-By Ed

Ok, that one of the longest title if not the title I’ve ever used for a post on this site. But the question is important to ask one self.

You might detect from the tone where this post is coming from. One of my zen moment, or rather a bit stoned from the onset of flu perhaps.

Anyway, I like to bring attention to this. You see, several years back, I got online because making money online seem to be the in thing. Still is if you are new.

I got exposed to all sorts of new stuff including blogs, social media, facebook, auto responders, podcasting, video casting, blogging clients, css, wordpress, content management systems, twitter, friendfeed ….. you can see that this is a long list that can keep going for a long time.

Looking back, doing all this while it did improve my knowledge about the web and bring in a few dollars to fund the hosting of several website, this one included, it did consume a lot of my time. I won’t say waste of time but it did consume it.

And today, I got a blog post about life streaming. The thing you do with a mobile phone to update your site or any social media site to let people know, what you are doing. just

I found that doing all this got me so hooked to the internet that I must go check out either my email, or facebook, or my stats that is I found it is distracting me from the most important thing in life. Living life!

Sure, I made some online friends, connected with old friends, learn a few tips and tricks and in fact I got a site set-up that brings customers to my offline work. That sure helped. But with the amount of new stuff online, I’m forced to examine whether I want to do something or not.

Not only does using something new involved a learning curve, it take time to set up and to do regularly. And in these economic times, getting more productive is more important than learning the next cool thing on the web.

Sure it is interesting to see what your friends are doing but living life yourself must be better than just reading about it online, right?

Take care, live life, Your life!