Antisocial networking
Enough, I’ve had enough. I just deleted my old Friendster and Tribe.net accounts. I deleted a bunch of “friends” who I’ve never met in my Myspace life. I was close to deleting my whole Myspace account, that poor excuse for ad dispersal. Myspace will go in the next couple of months if [Rupert] doesn’t clean up [Rupert]’s act.
Thought I had more to say, but I really don’t. Less is more.
[Edit: Plaxo now gone, too.]
[Another Edit: MySpace = gone.]
[Edit 18.December.2007: Just deleted my 43things account. Less is still more.]
November 10, 2007 | Filed Under my personal commentary
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I never picked up Plaxo. Why did you get rid of it? It seems like a service that might *actually* be useful.
You’re right, Plaxo was actually a great service for keeping contact information updated. Sometime recently Plaxo got on the social network bandwagon and created Plaxo Pulse, their version of MySpace. Plaxo used to be a wonderful silent service, and now floods my inbox with “yet more friend requests.” I couldn’t find a way out of Plaxo Pulse and still keep Plaxo, so I nuked the whole thing.
PS. I decided to stick with LinkedIn for my contact manager. LinkedIn and Plaxo offer almost the same service, so I figured I only needed one, and LinkedIn won.
I hear you man. Most of these social networks are useless…I have signed up for several mainly just for “education” so I know whats up. Right now I like LinkedIn and Facebook seems like the latest fad…but that’s about it.
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I understand your sentiments, although as you know it makes me sad to not be able to have my husband on my top friends anymore. If I could find another way to have a website of myself as a musician that was as EASY as myspace is (perhaps the only thing they do right), I’d delete mine too. But for now, it stays, sans husband. :)
Congratulations for having the courage to do this.
I’ve had myspace, facebook and linkin accounts mainly because other writers I know had them. But I’m beginning to wonder what the point is – the same writers are moving round – I met them on Zoetrope (a writer’s and artists workshopping site, so at least there’s a valid reason for it to exist). They’ve moved to myspace and now hang out on facebook.
So now the people I already know through other sites are making me their friend and sending me hugs and requests to compare movie taste (no one has the same taste in films as me, I already know this), and posting messages on facebook that i don’t reply to because I don’t have time to go to the site and log in to see what they’ve said.
I can’t help wondering why they don’t cut out the middle man and contact me the old fashioned way, by email.