A bit of newsyness: Just got an email asking if I’m sticking with partial syndication for my blog.
The reason I haven’t had full syndication was because I was at one point importing posts into Facebook and it was a bit muddly to have comments left on Facebook and on my blog. I wanted comments just to be in a central place. I’m just a tiny bit OCD.
But I’m no longer importing posts on Facebook because I wish Facebook would die. Is that too strong? 😉
Soooo…anyway. Full syndication FTW!
You hope facebook dies? LOL What’s up?
Woo! Full syndication FTW indeed!
I am just of the persuasion that Facebook actually does NOT help maintain friendship. It feels like a high school who-is-popular type of deal. And plus, before you know it you have a billion friends and yet you really only connect with 30 or 40.
Plus, this was the last straw for me. Well, maybe not the LAST straw since I still have my account on there.
I know I can use Friend Lists and such to protect my information and keep it somewhat just for those I’m close to but augh, it’s time consuming and fussy at times.
To me, Facebook feels like extra “noise” in my life. It’s a neat way to keep track of people in your life, but to be honest, I see it more as a tool to avoid interaction.
People don’t ask me what I’m doing anymore because they can see it when they log into Facebook. Of course, that’s part of the “noise” factor for me… I am “friends” with lots of people who, to be honest, are not a part of my life anymore. No hard feelings, but I don’t see them on a regular enough basis and am not interested enough in their life to see where they ate for dinner last Thursday.
Of course, some could argue this point about my blog… that I am willingly describing what I do all of the time and that ads to someone else’s overall mental noiselevel, but then again, people that read my blog are probably choosing to go there (or read in RSS).
I also find that people really only write on my wall when I do enough to rise about the “noise” and get to the top of their minifeed. When you have 400 friends, you can only see so much of what’s really going on anyway… which begs the question… why have 400 friends? I regularly delete/unfriend people who don’t talk to me/who I don’t talk to. Again, this is nothing against them as a person, but as a social networking tool, we’re not networking. We’re just ignoring each other and occasionally stalking each other on a nonpersonal level.
Just some thoughts about it as a whole. I like some aspects of Facebook and will continue to use it… but I think I like just getting emails from people better.