Since I’ve stopped using Facebook (for various social reasons that I am still organizing my thoughts around and will eventually come around to posting those reasons), I’ve noticed a drastic increase in my Engagement Rank for Twitter. The two are directly related. It says “I’m a key member of the community”!

Engagement Rank analyzes your twitter feed and statistically determine a score based on your interactivity with other users. On one end of the spectrum are people who only absorb information and on the other are people who respond to everything. I use to be on the former end, but seem to be moving more towards the middle.

The real question is what does your engagement rank tell you? Are you to have a higher quality of life? Aren’t you just as likely to receive information without engaging? You can definitely form stronger interpersonal relations. In general, it parallels how social you are. Being an introvert, I’m going to be on the lower end of the engagement rank. However, some introverts can be extroverts online due to the nature of communication and the ability to take time to consider and conduct a response.

I’ve been doing some social experimentation and philosophizing recently, especially focusing on real-world versus internet social interactions. We’ll see what conclusions I find…

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