Incongruent 2.0

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I have decided I only have so much attention to go around and that some people just shouldn’t be paid attention to.

The mesh of the web presents us with a puzzle of little pieces of people and my thoughts can’t help but try to assemble the individual puzzle pieces. Usually the puzzle pieces makes sense or at least all seem to belong to the same puzzle.

Sometimes though there seems to be more than one puzzle in the box if you know what I mean.

I run out of patience with people who are incongruent.

A definition for you: “Made up of parts or qualities that are disparate or otherwise markedly lacking in consistency:”

On a blog she’s one person.  On Twitter she’s something else.  On Facebook shes something else entirely.

Does she even know who she is?  Is she in the process on reinventing herself?

I don’t know - I’ve lost interest.

Compare that to the person who presents one message all the time.  There’s no doubt about who she is and what she does.  The puzzle fits together.

I feel comfortable networking with her.  I feel that I can safely refer others to her, knowing she won’t flake out in the midst of her next recreation.  I’m open to joint ventures with her.

What does your puzzle say about you?

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1. On July 7th, 2008 at 2:39 am, Adrienne said:

I think yes, there are times I can be incongruent. But it is simply a matter of looking at everything from all angles. I enjoy playing Devil’s Avocate and getting someone else to think of something from the opposite view even if I totally agree with their view. I am totally unable to just agree, (even if I agree) without swirling it around a bit.

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2. On July 7th, 2008 at 2:45 am, Kelly McCausey said:

LOL! I feel you :)

3. On July 7th, 2008 at 7:33 am, Marr Williams said:

I both agree and disagree. People are multi-faceted. Different platforms and groups of people can bring out different facets of our personalities. Especially Twitter because people are still trying to figure it out. Also - it’s not uncommon to find co-workers to be quite a bit different outside the workplace than they are in it.

On the other hand, I do see some marketers - maybe they’re new marketers - drastically change from group to group in order to connect better. They miss the mark when they fail to realize how much those groups overlap.

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4. On July 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am, KatFrench said:

Different facets of a singular personality is one thing. Totally different personality is another.

I write in a much different style on my personal blog than on the guest posts I write on my employer’s blog, and obviously Twitter requires a much briefer, tighter style than my normal wordiness–but my off-kilter sense of humor is the same everywhere.

And clearly, topical relevance is another issue. Not all topics fit all communities.

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