Between Christmas and New Year I saw quite a few tweets from people quietly waving goodbye for a while (the correct social media terminology here is a “Twitter hiatus“).

Stephen Fry announced he was having a rest – in order to get some real work done. And then there was the Web 2.0 suicide machine. Oh – and a rash of articles and blog posts about social media being various shades of addictive, boring and deadly (some of which we’ve talked about here). At times it looked like the long-awaited backlash might finally break… the dwindling skeptical rump of luddites *soooo* want this to happen – but it hasn’t. A similar thing happened last year, and probably the year before that.

On the other hand – I noticed that lots of other people resolved to look after their blog, or tweet, more/better rather than less in 2010.

I guess you know something has really arrived when people start giving it up because they’re enjoying it too much.

I also predict that they’ll be back – just like the smokers and boozers – with their tails between their legs. Losers.