What’s the Opposite of ADD?
Posted by Ted Hopton on February 28, 2009
My daughter has some degree of ADD, but I think I have whatever the opposite is. Not that I am a fan in the slightest of naming every personality trait with a disorder diagnosis, though. But I find myself zoning in on things lately to such an intense degree that I look around after more time than I thought has passed and wonder why the heck I let myself do that.
Guess it’s a phase I’m going through. Now that I think about it, I’ve done this before. Kind of how I built an entire website when I first got the hang of using Dreamweaver. And how I started this blog about a year ago. Compared to those examples, I am currently a model of balance and self-discipline!
Well, it’s been a long time since I posted here. I’ve been blogging, but in other places. I never did think I would do well at keeping up with multiple blogs, and that’s proving to be the case. I blog more and more for work, on our internal Clearspace platform. Then I have the Our Social Media Cultural Evolution blog, which I’m terribly delinquent on (luckily my co-author there has largely taken up the slack — thanks, Matt!).
But I’ve also expanded my use of social media, so I spend more time in other places besides here. I actually go on Facebook fairly often now, much to my own surprise. I still think it’s 90% a silly waste of time, but I can’t deny the other 10% has value. And I’ve been posting to Digg and Delicious when I find things of interest, or tweeting them in Twitter or using FriendFeed or Feedly. In addition to blogging internally for work, I’ve been reading and contributing to forums about social media, such as Clearstep, particularly on topics related to Enterprise 2.0 (using Web 2.0 applications inside an organization).
I think I’d need to have ADD to keep up with all of those platforms, actually. Instead, I just let some go dormant for a while. Sorry if you were one of my readers here! I’ve ignored you for so long… and this isn’t a promise that I’m coming back, either. I’m still playing the social media field, and the new toys are shinier than this one 
But you know what they say: you never forget your first. And this is my first real blog, so I won’t abandon it. Like a true friend, I’ll trust it to be here when I get a chance to come visit and catch up. Like today.
