Sunday, June 27, 2010

A Venn moment

I got just a little aggravated last week.  I saw a posting on Twitter last week that brought on this aggravation.  The post was about Facebook and a company that was using the Facebook pages to capture input from their customers.  The person's post was negative and uninformed.  I really had to fight the urge to post a reply.  I finally concluded that posting a reply would be a waste of bits simply because the party that posted it always thinks their opinion is "the correct opinion".


I truly believe that everyone has the right to express whatever they feel, however, I don't believe that anyone has the right to try to squash the creativity or innovation of another, especially in a unproductive negative manner.  I feel the post on Twitter was done for just that purpose.


I have become a fan of a blog by Jessica Hagy (@jessicahagy) titled Indexed.  Ms. Hagy uses various graphs and diagrams to allow her to  "...make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math..."  The items Ms. Hagy posted are thought provoking and often hilarious.  Ms. Hagy has provided the inspiration for the diagram below.  So, this is my response to the person who posted the message on Twitter.  Thanks for allowing me to vent.