Lately I've been getting a lot of invites from friends for me to join crackbook and LinkedIn. So far I have resisted joining the "social networking scene" for fear that it would eat up more of my free time. Granted, I always find ways to use up time when I should be doing other things (eg. blogging instead of making dinner). Am I missing out on why these sites are so good? Probably.
Currently my online presence is email, this blog, and flickr. No more icq or msn for me. I just sort of lost interest. Am I being antisocial? Perhaps. At this point I figure that I'll just break down one day and make an account... probably in the summer sometime.
Damn kids and their new fangled social networking...
Come on Jim. You have to join. Everybody else is doing it. You don't want to be left out.
ReplyDeleteYou're being a bit antisocial, yes -- but that's your choice.
ReplyDeleteI'm more fascinated by social networking sites from the software point of view: figuring out how they work, what features work, what features don't ... I'm making "web 2.0" apps now for my job, so it helps to join as many of these sites as I can manage and "steal" the good ideas and/or not make the same mistakes.
PS> As much as I don't like the term "web 2.0" necessarily, it's good to have a blanket term that covers it all ... and that's why I use it. It includes technical things like AJAX, as well as social features like friends and tagging.