Networking

[flexibeast]

i must say i'm resistant to the notion that i should create a profile on whatever social networking Web site is the current craze. i really don't like the idea of (a) continually having to re-enter personal details and interests i've entered elsewhere, (b) leaving this information scattered all over the Web, and (c) increasing my security risk profile, as everyone jumps from one social networking site to the other. A while back it was Tribe.net; then it was MySpace¹; and currently it's Facebook (and perhaps LinkedIn as well). i'm sure that a year or two from now, it will be something else.

Apparently this is driving other people bananas too, because i'm observing increasing amounts of discussion about the creation of some kind of standard that would allow people to easily transfer existing information on one social network to a new social network.

Anyway, i'm quite happy with LiveJournal, thanks very much. :-)

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1. Which i'm particularly resistant to joining, owned as it is by Murdoch - i'd rather not be handing my personal details to the Murdoch marketing machine on a platter!
 

Comments

[penguinpusher.livejournal.com]

linkedin is kinda cool, it couldn't be more different to LJ and the two in combination provide a good balance. It's totally employment based, it's no fun, when people post it's under "questions to ask my network" rather than anything friendly, personal or trivial. You also have a load of control over what you make public.

I've resisted MySpace for exactly the same reasons, and 2 social networks is enough so I've said no to quite a few facebook invites now.

[haggis.livejournal.com]

I'm on Facebook because a big group of my non-LJ friends are there, especially people I know from university.

But I still find it weird - I'm not sure how you control what information is visible and I am twitchy at the idea of being known on the internet under my real name.

I've also seen a lot of cases of people being accused of a high profile crime and having their Facebook/Myspace splashed over the papers and 'analysed' as part of the media witchhunt.

[sunflowerp]

Oh, how nice that I'm not alone. I'm having a Fit of Perversity about Facebook. But then, I'm one of those people that, if all my friends went and jumped in the lake on a really hot day, I'd sit and swelter on the bank until getting in the water was my idea.

If the damn thing is still a high-usage newtworking site in '09, then I'll think about it.

Sunflower

[theuppitywoman.livejournal.com]

I've seen this with livejournal pages too though.

[flexibeast.livejournal.com]

Oh, how nice that I'm not alone. I'm having a Fit of Perversity about Facebook. But then, I'm one of those people that, if all my friends went and jumped in the lake on a really hot day, I'd sit and swelter on the bank until getting in the water was my idea.

*laugh* i can be like that myself. :-) i have a hype threshold - once something passes that threshold, i refuse to consider it further until the hype about it dissipates to the point where rational appraisal is again possible. :-)

If the damn thing is still a high-usage newtworking site in '09, then I'll think about it.

Good plan. :-)

[sunflowerp]

"Hype threshold" - I am so stealing that. What you said describes what I'm like exactly.

Sunflower