Are You a Lifecaster?

Yes, if you use facebook.

That makes just about everyone, especially if you use the facebook wall, post tweets or write a blog (I admit, I do all three).

Lifecasting is defined by wikipedia as the continual broadcast of events in a person’s life through digital media. People capture daily routines and provide interactive communication with their audience.

Is it really just a compulsion?

USA Today has an excellent article, The popularity of Twitter has some relationships in a twist.

The fight between pop-music couple Rihanna and Chris Brown started because, according to the police report, she saw a text message from another woman on his cellphone and got upset.

For Justine Ezarik, 25, lifecasting has become a great opportunity. She is a real pro at this, currently ranked #27 in the all time list of twitter followers as reported by twitterholic. That puts her at just over 423,000 followers. Her bio: New media chick and Apple fan girl. I make funny videos and blog about everything from technology to pop culture. She posts commentary, which is mostly all about… her. But it’s entertaining and to her credit, tasteful. She is smart and has talent. Back to the USA Today article…

But even iJustine is getting fed up with Twitter twits. “You realize you might be with a person but they’re completely thinking something else — and they’re Twittering it,” she says. “My sister came to visit me and she would not get off the phone, she was constantly texting. I was, what are you doing? I never see you, can you just put down the phone?!“

Explore Justine’s online world and you will see lifecasting done right. This girl has talent, not just in front of the camera, but as a producer and writer and marketing maven. She has several sites from her Tasty Blog Snack at  iJustine.com to her own channel on youtube.com. If you want to join the minions who follow, including me, her twitter name is iJustine.

…iJustine, for instance, has learned her lesson: She stopped the live streaming of her life 24/7 online (yes, she wore a camera on her head) because it was upsetting her friends and business partners. Her best friend moved out…

Well, at the time, it probably seemed like a good idea.

1 comment

1. Scooter

   Posted on April 16, 2009

   Hello- Another good one.. So you can actually lose friends by life casting??
   And- I’m glad to know that ijustine herself gets frustrated when her family is texting, twittering, facebooking,blogging, etc. when she wants their attention on her.

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