Imagine, Create, and Let go
I’ve noticed in my non-geek friends — the majority of my friends — a stunning increase in the use of **social media**. Let me be more specific. Take this friend of mine who is a notorious **technology-privacy-basher** , she rejects most of my **fine suggestions**. Daily I tell her: “You should try [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE5MjI1MTk)” or “Try [Screenr](http://screenr.com/) it doesn’t need installing!”. But she **simple doesn’t**.
But recently she has opened herself a [Tumblr-blog](http://yoldaanderskor.tumblr.com/) and now she is some **sort of an addict**. Of course I’m not supposed to call her an addict. Neither I would call myself a **Twitter-addict**, but with [1,375 tweets](http://twitter.com/patrizio) hardly anyone would believe me.
The trick of Tumblr? I guess mostly because it is so **easy to use**, but more importantly it **adheres** to the ‘**virtuous cycle of sharing**’. A concept [coined by Zuckerberg](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Connect/Providing_Social_Context#Virtuous_Cycle_of_Sharing) on how Facebook **stimulates sharing**.
SharingCycle
When people are given the **right tools** they let their ideas come to reality. Take the [Worldwide desktops](http://worldwidedesktops.tumblr.com/), where people **take a picture** of **their desktop** and share it on a **common place**.
* **[Worldwide desktops](http://worldwidedesktops.tumblr.com/)**
* Take a picture of your desktop
* Describe **who**, **where**, **When** and **Why**
* Put it on **Flickr** or **Tumblr**
* And submit it to **worldwidedesktops.tumblr.com**
Thats all! Some people (like me now) spread the word, and it grows. Perhaps it will grow fast and big, perhaps not. But does it really matter?
***PS** If you want you can submit similar concepts or ideas you particularity like as a comment below*
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