A moment too late
December 18th, 2007Ever learned of something just a fraction too late behind “everyone else”, causing an immediate disregard for that thing?
For me, the incident I remember most was the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album. I prided myself on knowing cool weird bands, then boom, everyone was listening to Nirvana, and I’d somehow completely missed the boat. Not wanting to be a “me too” I ended up never purchasing any Nirvana CDs ever. Of course, now I remember Kurt fondly when I hear Smells Like Teen Spirit on the oldies radio channel (”the greatest hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s, with less talk!”).
I feel like something similar may be happening with Spock.com. I don’t know if they’ve somehow suddenly infiltrated my social group, or if they just have a particularly wicked viral campaign (auto-sending invites to your whole address book, like Plaxo did once upon a time). But somehow, I’ve gotten a dozen invites to Spock in the past week.
I’d looked at Spock a while back. And I didn’t get it.
It did not seem particularly accurate, precise or useful. And now everyone I know is inviting me to it.
And I still don’t get it.
Some new services have a gentle roll-out, where you build anticipation, hoping to get invited (ie, Dopplr, GMail). Others seem to have a polarizing roll-out. You either immediately buy-in or immediately become a detractor.
I’m not sure what the difference is, really.
But you can stop inviting me to Spock.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Man. You too?
I could not possibly care less about spock.com. Facebook and LinkedIn are already too much for me to handle.
Being one of the cool kids takes too much time.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:41 am
I sooooo sympathize. Please stop inviting me too folks!