Social Media

Over on Twitter, one of the more interesting memes I’ve run across is “Two Words”.

I’m not sure how it started, but the idea seems to be that if reducing a conversational message to Twitter’s 140 character limit is good, then limiting your message to two words must be even better! (Minimalism is sort of an obsession on Twitter)

The Two Words challenge I’ve liked best was from Mike Sansone :

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Part of the Temperament/Social media series in collaboration
with Elemental Truths. You can find all of the relevant articles
linked at the bottom of the Introduction.

C holerics: goal oriented, independent, problem-solving leaders of .. well… everything. They want (and need( to be in charge - in charge of themselves, in charge of their environment, in charge of others.

They like affection, appreciation and attention well enough, but only when it’s offered on their terms, and generally, they’d prefer start a group, rather than join someone else’s. But don’t be fooled - they aren’t afraid to gate crash either, and are happy exert their influence and divert existing communities to their own purposes.

What’s the Web2.0 appeal for a Choleric?

Social Media is filled with endless communities, networks and discussions ready to be taken over, subverted, and bent to the Choleric’s will. Alternately, Cholerics can just create their own community, reigning over it as Grand-Emperor-Virtual-Poohbah.

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Part of the Temperament/Social media series in collaboration
with Elemental Truths. You can find all of the relevant articles
linked at the bottom of the Introduction.

Phlegmatic temperaments play an interesting and oft-underplayed role in social circles: they’re maintainers. When the Melancholies have retreated into a moodiness, the Sanguines have flitted off to the next big thing, and the cholerics and supines are busy with their causes and goals, it’s the Phlegmatics that provide the calm, quiet consistent presence that keeps a network together until the rest of us get over ourselves and wander back.

But what do Phlegmatics get out of modern social media?

I remember taking some of my phlegmatic friends to dance clubs years ago. They’d sit quietly in the literal shadows of the building, watching others. I’d always be sure they were bored to tears, but on the way home, they’d tell me what a really wonderful time they had, and tell me about everything they’d observed.

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Part of the Temperament/Social media series in collaboration
with Elemental Truths.

With low needs for socialization and attention, Melancholies may not be the stars of social networking, but they may find it an attractive medium all the same.

The Melancholy personality is motivated by a drive towards intimacy- not necessarily romantic intimacy, but the sort of intimacy that comes with the transparent mythical sharing and baring of the soul of poetry and art… the intimacy of kindred spirits.

And in the search for kindred spirits, social media offers countless benefits.

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Part of the Temperment/Social media series in collaboration
with Elemental Truths. You can find a list of the relevant articles in the MindTweaks Sidebar, or linked at the bottom of the Introduction.

Sanguines: entertaining, outgoing, responsive, warm, and friendly - that’s just part of Reg’s description of Sanguines. They thrive on attention and affection, they love being included, and they go out of their way to include others. So social media should be a breeze for those with strong Sanguine traits, right?

Well, yes and no.

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