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What's Wrong with Being a Follower?

http://www.theconversationprism.com/media/images/twitterverse-poster-lg.jpg My question of the day stemmed from two blog posts from bloggers I follow speaking to the semantics of what Twitter/Facebook/et al. call their respective users. @WordsDoneWrite lambasted the notion of followers in an older post . I get where she is coming from. "Followers" connotates something akin to worship. (I'd dare say the way people are overly positive and grossly cheery, they are worshipping). Amber suggests that the name hurts the power of social media. I guess because it infers a relationship of power over another. @ariherzog has written something similar here . He breaks it down as simply as this: "We need to stop calling the people we know online as friends." I "follow," have "friend-ed" and done whatever else a website has done to simple connect with folks via social media. While I get the complaint about the verbiage used, I don't think a...