I am Between Booms.

I was born in 1964. Which means that I'm a baby boomer... but on the very tail end. So I suffer from psychographic and demographic schizophrenia.

I'm fiscally conservative but socially liberal. I voted for Obama, but follow John McCain on Twitter. I think Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are media whores who do nothing but bitch about the stimulus bill, but I really am appalled by all the pork that's stuffed into it.

And I am constantly annoyed by the self-centered Gen Xers who work for me...but secretly envy their "of course the world revolves around me. Why shouldn't it?" attitude.

I do think all this tweeting, blogging and facebooking is just another way of saying to the world that every moment of your life is worth recording and sharing with total strangers.

But I tweet, blog and facebook.

Torn.

Linkedin? More like Suckered in.

Is anyone else out there just so over the whole Linkedin model? I have come to the conclusion that it is chock full of business people who are too cheap to hire professional help and want advice (and sometimes actual work) for free.

Either that or freelancers who are constantly shilling for business, help with getting the word out about their new ventures or asking for help in areas they actually want to be paid as a professional for. (Free advice: if you are a freelance writer, posting on Linkedin with run-on sentences, typos and generally crappy grammer is NOT going to get you clients. Yes, I see this all the time.)

If you are launching a new website, are you asking people to read your press releases and give you professional advice on the content and the distribution? You aren't ready to launch a new website, cheapass. Pay for some solid PR and marketing help first.