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Re: Let a hundred Facebooks bloom

facebook-8649725 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:24:57 -0000

Lucy I was (sort of ) just kidding. I love Twitter and I'm there a lot, though it's a mistake to think that the content there is profound. It's usually not very deep at all because we are pretty simply little creatures who value socializing above thoughtful reflection. I worry that social media is at the same time opening up new horizons while it inclines us to interact even more superficially than before.

Re: Let a hundred Facebooks bloom

JoeDuck — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:23:04 -0000

I had two very interesting things to say on Twitter ....this, and ... whoops... I have forgotten the second one.

Re: Let a hundred Facebooks bloom

mathewi — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:07:06 -0000

Well, I figure everyone has at least one or two interesting things to
say :-) There just need to be more ways for people to say them and
have others hear them. And more ways of tying those different ways
together.

Re: Let a hundred Facebooks bloom

sidsavara — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:02:29 -0000

I saw an interesting product called TweetDeck (no affiliation with me, and I just saw someone using it, I never used it) that basically aims to let you group friends in whatever way you want, and builds a little searchable database on your computer of those tweets. Facebook also has some level of filtering, but I think it's terrible - it seems no matter what I tell it it is totally random.

I do like having different networks (just as we have different groups we interact with IRL), but I dislike having to log in everywhere. I don't know what a good solution is, but I'd like to be able to log into one place and manage all my networks. I tried FriendFeed out, it wasn't quite what I was looking for in that regard.

Re: Let a hundred Facebooks bloom

JoeDuck — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:58:06 -0000

Thx for the Prologue tip - that sounds promising. I wish everybody would blog, but we'll never even see 1/100 doing so. However almost everybody will do some form of messaging like IM or Twitter or Facebook or any of the thousands of options, and we need a way to converge that data into coherent forms that are not constrained by applications.

Two new challenges I'm noticing at Twitter are people dramatically reducing their blogging and the info overload if you try to follow more than a few hundred people. Soon will we need to tag our contacts as "friends who say interesting stuff" and "friends who don't" ??