https://georgesupreeth.com/web/tags/socialmedia/Recent content in Socialmedia on George SupreethHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 05 Mar 2026 20:27:06 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_260305_how_the_speaking_tree_died/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:27:06 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_260305_how_the_speaking_tree_died/N o one in the tribe could remember who discovered speaking trees first. The squat, ugly tree was the quickest means to get in touch with other tribes. The way it worked was that you spoke into the hollow in its trunk and the tree conducted your voice through its network of roots to other speaking trees across the world. Of course, this meant that anyone standing near a speaking tree could hear you, even if they were not meant to, but it beat running across forests with sabre-toothed predators nipping at your loin cloth.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_social_media_makes_me_feel_old/Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_social_media_makes_me_feel_old/Our Art club uses Instagram to promote its weekly drawing programs, and since the people we want to reach are generally active on that very-visual-platform, we are forced to use it. On Sunday, when we were all posing for the customary after session group photo, I made a comment about how Instagram is the bane of our lives. Pat came a quip from a youngster beside me. “Then you should run around Bangalore sticking posters.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_finding_insight_in_my_social_media_comments/Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_finding_insight_in_my_social_media_comments/I mentioned in a previous post that I use LinkedIn as a publishing medium. Ever since big tech took over specialized communities, it feels like no one really reads personal blogs anymore, and I am sometimes forced to go where the audience is. On LinkedIn, there are a few different contexts in which I write. Long Form Writing: These are typically articles, for which I do a fair bit of research and go through many rounds of editing.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_social_media_and_me/Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_social_media_and_me/I find social media overwhelming. The noise gets to me after even a little bit of browsing, and by noise I don’t mean just the user interface. It’s the sheer diversity and volume of ongoing conversations. It feels like the equivalent of walking into a massive and raucous party, composed of hundreds of tiny groups, all talking at the same time, using the same passive-aggressive ways of communicating. I find it exhausting.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_the_dream_that_wily_old_inside-out_wove_for_man/Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_the_dream_that_wily_old_inside-out_wove_for_man/The last sounds of the debate died away, and the high priest of the Temple of Man sat down in prayer. As always, the debate centred around the Book of Man – the only book that the monastery possessed. Indeed, it was the only book in the entire kingdom. “There must be a way that our thoughts may mesh as one” mused the high priest. Perhaps if the Gods were appeased?https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_linking_linkedin_posts/Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_linking_linkedin_posts/I’ve been writing tiny 1300 character posts on LinkedIn over the last couple of years. Today I went browsing through those archives and realised there are some topics i revisit often and in different contexts. Information and knowledge management, for instance, seems to come up a lot. A fair bit on design philosophy too. Also that odd thing, design-thinking, but those posts were largely to make it clear that I’m a sceptic.