Comments on: The Social Network Blues http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/ The Mass of Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation. Where's the Fun in That? Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:06:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fun Anymore » Yeah we're movin' on up... http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-3103 Fun Anymore » Yeah we're movin' on up... Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:08:54 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/site/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/#comment-3103 [...] notice, too, that the social media whipping refuses to come to a close. Eley, Miller, Calacanis… and a few dozen others I’ve noticed around the blogosphere. As I posted [...] [...] notice, too, that the social media whipping refuses to come to a close. Eley, Miller, Calacanis… and a few dozen others I’ve noticed around the blogosphere. As I posted [...]

]]> By: Fun Anymore » Yeah we're movin' on up... http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-3104 Fun Anymore » Yeah we're movin' on up... Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:08:53 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/site/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/#comment-3104 [...] notice, too, that the social media whipping refuses to come to a close. Eley, Miller, Calacanis… and a few dozen others I’ve noticed around the blogosphere. As I posted [...] [...] notice, too, that the social media whipping refuses to come to a close. Eley, Miller, Calacanis… and a few dozen others I’ve noticed around the blogosphere. As I posted [...]

]]> By: Social Networking Bulletin - » The Social Network Blues http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-3072 Social Networking Bulletin - » The Social Network Blues Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:28:49 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/site/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/#comment-3072 [...] Read more: Chris [...] [...] Read more: Chris [...]

]]> By: KJToo http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-3064 KJToo Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:46:37 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/site/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/#comment-3064 I fell into the app-happy trap on Facebook, with the zombies and the books and the vampires and the movies and the music and the... yeah, all of that. I'm trying to prune things down a bit and figure out what I really want to do with the damn thing. As with WordPress, I find that the quality of the various "plugins" ranges from quite useful to utter crap (actually, I'm still searching for "quite useful" on Facebook); the sheer number of plugins/apps is a bit overwhelming, and finding one that is useful, lives up to its own claims, and looks good can be a bit difficult. I fell into the app-happy trap on Facebook, with the zombies and the books and the vampires and the movies and the music and the… yeah, all of that. I’m trying to prune things down a bit and figure out what I really want to do with the damn thing. As with WordPress, I find that the quality of the various “plugins” ranges from quite useful to utter crap (actually, I’m still searching for “quite useful” on Facebook); the sheer number of plugins/apps is a bit overwhelming, and finding one that is useful, lives up to its own claims, and looks good can be a bit difficult.

]]> By: Ray Slakinski http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-3057 Ray Slakinski Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:38:13 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/site/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/#comment-3057 Its all about what you want from the network in question. With linkedIn its all about work past, present and future. With MySpace for me its about staying connected to the bands I like (since they don't maintain sites of their own anymore) Facebook for staying in touch with long past friends... urm.... Actually I use this to widen my social reach, but less and less so now (I'm probably going to de-friend people soon on facebook) Then comes Pownce, which I switched to away from Twitter. Twitter was great but it was missing something for me. I wanted more, I wanted to tell people i'm somewhere, someplace and if you where there too that would be great! I wanted to share files when I'm out at a conference (wink wink) and I wanted to be see links that people were sending me so I knew in advance that it was safe for me to click on. Plus I could do all that twitter like stuff. But even on powce the noise was high for me, so I made more of my friends followers instead so when a friend said something I could listen. Its all about what you want from the network in question. With linkedIn its all about work past, present and future. With MySpace for me its about staying connected to the bands I like (since they don’t maintain sites of their own anymore) Facebook for staying in touch with long past friends… urm…. Actually I use this to widen my social reach, but less and less so now (I’m probably going to de-friend people soon on facebook)

Then comes Pownce, which I switched to away from Twitter. Twitter was great but it was missing something for me. I wanted more, I wanted to tell people i’m somewhere, someplace and if you where there too that would be great! I wanted to share files when I’m out at a conference (wink wink) and I wanted to be see links that people were sending me so I knew in advance that it was safe for me to click on. Plus I could do all that twitter like stuff.

But even on powce the noise was high for me, so I made more of my friends followers instead so when a friend said something I could listen.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.unquietdesperation.com/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-3054 Sarah Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:12:46 +0000 http://www.unquietdesperation.com/site/2007/07/27/the-social-network-blues/#comment-3054 I know exactly where you're coming from! Although I think perhaps in Facebook I've discovered the 'one' app I need for my online networking. Previously I couldn't keep ontop of my blog, websites, other people's blogs, vid blogs, the whole cobboodle was too much! This seems all in one place which works for me so far. But still early days... I know exactly where you’re coming from! Although I think perhaps in Facebook I’ve discovered the ‘one’ app I need for my online networking. Previously I couldn’t keep ontop of my blog, websites, other people’s blogs, vid blogs, the whole cobboodle was too much! This seems all in one place which works for me so far. But still early days…

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