Antisocial Media (Stickam Addiction)
Heard of Stickam? It’s a live-video website that allows people to gather in rooms and interact via live webcams and text messaging. YouTubers are especially prone to spending their off-YouTube hours congregating, and it’s always puzzled me. They mostly hang out in Nutcheese‘s room.
Then again, I’m not a raving fan of instant messaging, e-mail or other social media applications like Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.
Here’s my social commentary on what I like to call “antisocial media.“
FIRST!!?? yep i heard of stickam & ditto on everything u just said! 😉
I never really understood the fascination with Stickam either, although a lot of my favorite YiutTubers use it. But then, I don’t see the fascination with any social networking site, although I DO have MySpace and Facebook pages (but I use those mostly to spy on my sons who are in college). 🙂
I’m going to coin web 4.0 as the “humans ditch computers and hang out together” phase of the Internet revolution.
I don’t have the attention span for that type of thing. Searching the web and watching “Forensic Files” at the same time is about all I can handle at one time. :o)
U guys ever heard of youtube? check out this girl hopped up on a rockstar energydrink,its funny to me anyway : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FraQ9B3HuiI ………I wish nalts would subscribe back to me,MDJ did,i guess nalts is busy reading over those hollywood scripts 😉
oops i forgot my youtube channel,im such a dufus! http://www.youtube.com/user/ALTERBRIDGERAWKS ,Nalts,i hope u get over that bad case of Aphoofies!!
I call Stickam the “Telepathic Chat Rooms” because every time I log in to a Stickam room, nobody in there is actually talking. They’re just staring blankly at each other’s images. Kinda creepy. Reminds me of The Pod People.
Hang in there, Steve. Nalts is backlogged. He just yesterday answered my post about 9/11 that I sent on 9/12.
Wait. What? You’re not a big fan of instant messaging sites like Stickam yet your profile lists 451 friends? 451 friends?
Boink.
451 friends on Stickam? How on God’s green earth do you do it?
I’m surprised that more subscribers don’t use Stickam to interact with their favorite vloggers. Zipster has thousands of subscribers and they know they could find him in the NutCheese Stickam room. This gives me the impression that the YouTube Community is really quite small and subscriber numbers don’t indicate that.
It’s pretty interesting to watch Zipster on Stickam WHILE he’s making a vlog for Youtube. Well, it was the first time.
I went over to stickcam once and saw this guy sleeping.
I typed: Is this performance art?
Then never went back.
I can totally understand why you wouldn’t want to go on Stickam, what with your painful shyness and all.
who me?
Oh my gosh. Your blog and video made want to use stickam.
First, thanks for putting my picture on your blog (I think). I don’t IM or text or any of that stuff, but I do stop by Stickam a couple of times a week. It allows me to catch up, albeit superficially, with friends I don’t get to see every day (although it is getting more and more often). It is not a substitute for real face-to-face meeting. It was a pleasure watching you put together this video with such speed and creativity.