Archive for March, 2009
Social Networking – Part 2: The Expansion
Despite my reservations about Facebook and Twitter, I’ve decided to venture out more into the social networking ecosphere with accounts at both.
Facebook came with the surprise of finding other family members there. Making friends with the family made it easier to explore what Facebook has to offer. When you boil it all down, it’s really nothing more than an advertisement server. They entertain the Internet public while getting the opportunity to serve that public ads that make them money. This isn’t much different than the strategy television networks have been subscribed: free entertainment as long as we can pitch some products to you in the meantime. “Here’s a word from our sponsors.”
Twitter is going to take some time to get used to. I’m still not sure how I’d want to use it. Besides announcing a random thought once in a while, I don’t have much need for it. I do like the ability of following others’ feeds so that they all collect on your Twitter home page. I follow Senator John McCain from Arizona, Tim Buckley of Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and Ryan Sohmer of Least I Could Do. It’s entertaining and with this market you couldn’t ask for more.
I still can’t bring myself to go back to MySpace, though. It doesn’t appeal to me anymore. So, I’ll play around with these and see what I can make out of it all. If you’re at all interested, the links are located to the right and at the bottom of every page.
