One more social network… that’s it. Spock.
Did you think of Dr. Spock on Star Trek or Dr. Benjamin Spock M.D. the first time you heard of Spock? I think I first heard of Spock in November 2007. I was proud of myself for resisting joining one more social network… I thought “what a stupid name…”
The other day I was trying to see if I could find the Realty World site on Ning.com via search. It’s a local builder’s baby. I did find Realty World via Google with a link from Spock. I looked to see how much authority Spock has in comparison to Naymz and a couple of other social media sites I believed were similar… I wished then that I had been more discerning before joining Naymz since I am losing patience with spam from Naymz.
Paul Chaney a web 2.0 guru wrote about Spock the next day on Twitter:
Great post on Spock and why it might be worth your time… http://tinyurl.com/2cdpkr 09:47 AM January 08, 2008 from web 
It was relatively painless to join Spock… no I take that back. I tried to join and got no email. I tried again, it told me my email address was not a valid email address. I was about to try a different email address and tried the one I use on all these networks… one more time… and it took that time. I got an email. I followed steps one to three… I don’t like the way Spock shows my blogs on RealTown.com or ActiveRain on my profile but their search pulled up Discover Columbus, the RealTown.com Blog quickly and efficiently. I removed the links to others with my name (it’s a very common name..) not a big deal.
I thought in asking people “for trust” I was only asking members. I said no to them inviting every friend from my Linkedin or Plaxo Pulse address books.
Later I found out I sent emails “for trust” on Spock to people who were not members… Of course I’ve been getting them regularly since the first time I heard of Spock. Duh! Spock knew of them… but I thought it was telling me they were members. I chose not to invite all the people on Linkedin and Plaxo Pulse who I understood as NOT members of Spock. Discussing it on Twitter with someone who is not a Spock member but got email from me…
Columbusite Tim Eby of WOSU Twittered me:
timjeby @maureenmccabe — I had the same thing happen to me with Spock and I immediately dumped it off my list of social media tools. 12 minutes ago from web in reply to MaureenMcCabe
I am going to assume the faux pas was mine. I’m going to assume I did not read carefully what Spock was telling me… Mea Culpa… my apologies to anyone I sent something to from Spock who is not a member. That’s it… no more but if you hear about something great… let me know.
My Profile on Spock.com
Planets photo from GeekPhilosopher.com
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I wrote about it in December 2006 on what was then known as Columbus Best Blog (this is ColumbusBestBlog.com ) now known as Discover Columbus.
