Add this to the category of “things I wanted to post weeks ago, but was too busy.”
The Social Network (trailer) is a film about Facebook which I have only ever seen advertised online. It doesn’t seem like they are doing much else to promote that film. Anyway in case you missed it, here’s the inevitable Myspace parody.
via Daily What
tone_def posted this link, Unlink Your Feeds – A Manifesto a couple of days ago. I thought I would share it with you all. Tim Maly makes some good points and that first page is a quick read, so don’t be scared to click the link. One of the things he doesn’t mention in his post is that some people are reading their social networks in one application. So, your feed literally does look like duplicates if someone is following you on 2 networks.
Personally, I felt strange about mixing audiences by linking Twitter to Facebook. Honestly, Facebook is mostly full of dudes that were in my college courses six years ago. On the other hand, my Twitter followers are close friends, most of who I have hung out with. (Luckily, no one reads the blog or I’d probably pay for this observation on FB.) The people on FB could probably care less I was in town or in a bad mood. Now, my tweeps may be concerned as they may want to get lunch or keep clear of me.
Prior to FB‘s redesign that put the news feed/status updates as the focus, the two social networks were very different creatures. To some extent they still are with FB being more content rich. (Though, I would call it clutter.) Thus, Maly’s point is “using each service for what it is.” For example, while I’d encourage you to spend time with your family face to face, FB does allow you to share photos and videos with the family. (Easily done with links on Twitter too.) Twitter is much more real-time focused, short and sweet with no pictures, videos, marketplaces or games to clutter up the communication. Maybe you want to jab at a friend because your college team is beating their college at the moment. Rather than calling them, you tweet it at them.
Finally, a funny story about this linking feeds concept- Not too long ago I decided to construct a Facebook Fan Page for this website. Mainly, I was feeling like an adbot or something on FB because I hardly used my account except to share my website posts (through an RSS feed, oops!). I continued to share my links to blog posts on Twitter, while also posting the links to the FB fan page. Someone (I won’t name names), commented about the duplicate posts on my Twitter account and on the FB fan page which showed up in their FB news feed. Then, that person stopped being a fan on FB. I don’t know why he/she didn’t notice that my personal FB and Twitter statuses were posting links prior to the creation of the fan page.
Anyway, I completely understood the reason I lost a fan. I would probably do the same. However, I did find it hilarious that this person uses a Twitter app to feed their status into FB.
Anyway, check out the Manifesto, he’s got examples and even a form letter to send someone.
via MattBors.com
You can skip my rant and just watch the video.
I was just saying on Twitter how amazing it is to me that people are so eager to receive junk mail & advertising. I mean if someone asks for your name and address you get defensive about your privacy, unless they throw the words “Social Network” in front of their proposal.
Now we have people out there calling themselves professionals who are labeled Social Marketing experts. The job is to advertise the company they work for on social networks like twitter, facebook, etc. The name of the game is exposure. Forget quality interactions, lets just see how many fans we can get on our Facebook fan page because that means more customers! Let us worship our all mighty god QUANTITY!! As consumerism is our religion, MORE is our goal.
The folks who lampooned twitter have called out the LinkedIn in the following video.
via iheartchaos
I poked the site for my 4 loyal readers. Now you can share you joy, apathy or disdain with the blog posts by clicking the little colored buttons below. In reality, I don’t know why I included the apathy button in the middle. I’d imagine an apathetic reader wouldn’t care to click it.
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I always forget about the fun over at current_tv. I spotted this over at urlesque and I enjoyed it.
Multiple layers of commentary in one funny toon. First we have to hate anything that gets too popular. Second, the toon makes fun of the absolute retardedness of getting the most followers/friends/connections in social networks. (You can make fun of my stupidity for making up a word like ‘retardedness’ in the comments or in animation form.) Finally, the animation jabs at the silliness of these supposedly legit celebrity accounts.
Apparently, IRL is in real life to the kids these days. So much time is spent online that we have to have Internet speak for real life?
So, this was mildly entertaining. The premise of all that Facebook crap happening as a human interaction is funny, the execution, well it probably could have been better.
Still feeling the urge to quit the ‘social’ abomination.
