Most Likely to Take Over the World

1. First Post: I Write To Know I’m Alive — back when I first started posting here, I used this as a writing journal, and this was my first post in what was, for a few brief months, another online journal of mine.
2. The Post I Enjoyed Writing The Most: The Internet Doesn’t Hurt Kids; Bad Parenting Hurts Kids – This is such a sensitive topic for me, not because I’m a parent (I’m not) but because I was a child who grew up (from age 13 in 1993 using BBSs to interact with adults and students alike at the library) with the Internet. I’m so tired of the Internet being vilified, whether it’s another sensational “My child had [insert dramatic incident here] because of someone they met / something they saw online” or the ubiquitous “Social Media Can Get You Fired” posts that every newspaper, blogger, and freelance writer feels compelled to write without saying anything that most 14-year-olds already know but apparently adults don’t.
3. A post which had a great discussion: — Hear crickets chirping? That’s because my readers (and I use Google analytics, so I know you’re out there!) don’t tend to comment on the site. Overall, though, I got the most Twitter feedback and relinking from the above-mentioned The Internet Doesn’t Hurt Kids; Bad Parenting Hurts Kids.
4. A Post On Someone Else’s Blog You Wish You Had Written: You mean other than everything Laurie has ever written, especially back in her “Zen and the Art…” days? I lament that she gave up online journaling. She was brilliant
5. Your Most Helpful Post: – How do I know what has helped the most people? If I have to guess, I’d say Jimmy Choo Joins the Cult of Foursquare insomuch as I know a lot of my Twitter followers ended up retweeting and following CatchaChoo, so I can only hope one of them won a pair of ridiculously expensive sneakers.
6. A Post With A Title of which I Am Proud: “Foursquare Reaches 1 Million Members, Is Joined By the WSJ, and Thus Harkens the Apocalypse” which was later shortened due to the fact that such a long title is bad for Retweets.
7. A Post You Wish More People Had Read: – Besides The Internet Doesn’t Hurt Kids; Bad Parenting Hurts Kids, which I think everyone should read before they bitch about the internet on the Internet, there’s also the Internet For Beginners primer “No Expectation of Privacy on the Internet” that I’d love to see become required reading for everyone before you join your first social network.

Possibly Related Posts:

• A Foursquare Addict’s Slideshare on Foursquare
• 4 Pages Control Your Privacy on Facebook
• Starbucks and Foursquare Take Over the World: A Case Study
• The Internet Doesn’t Hurt Kids; Bad Parents Hurt Kids
• No Expectation of Privacy on the Internet