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What Yogi Berra would have said about social networks

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FredericBaud commented on my blog about Social Money yesterday, that we should have a competition to see who could write the best comment in social networks in the spirit of Yogi Berra.

For those unfamiliar with the great Yogi, he was not the one who had a sidekick called Boo Boo.   He was rather better known as a major league baseball player in post-War USA who had some classic one-liners, such as:

  • "It ain't over till it's over";
  • "It's like déjà vu all over again";
  • "You can observe a lot by just watching";
  • "It's tough making predictions, especially about the future";
  • "The future ain't what it used to be"; and
  • "We made too many wrong mistakes."

So my starter for ten was: "If I'd known they would call sitting behind a computer being social, I'd have stayed in the bar."

Frederic came up with: "I'm trying to be social as every other man, but I had to draw a line when my mother asked to be part of my network."

And
Guillaume proposes "Web 2.0 is about being less social with more people".

We'll give this one a week to run and then I'll choose a winner, with a copy of the winner's choice of one of my books as the prize.

Just enter your proposals below as a comment ...

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Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...

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