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Unclogging the flist and social networks!
Jul. 28th, 2008 07:58 pmI just cleaned out my flist of a bunch of communities that I wasn't interested in anymore, were dead or was pulling out my hair at what they'd become. I also re-joined two Firefly communities because I missed them.
Dishing about your own drama and crushes in your journal is fine. If I don't share your fascination, I ignore it when I comment on the entry, if I do at all. But when you take over communities, there's a problem. I can't have my IQ drained by morons who lose their brains whenever they see someone remotely attractive and spam communities with their glee. And community wars and elitism are not cool in my book. The only locked comms I'm in are sharing comms. I'm not about to comment and demand change when it's simpler for me to just leave and seek what I thought the community was about elsewhere.
In other news, I have become a social network fiend. :/ I deleted MySpace because I never used it, but in the past week I've joined Plurk (which I can't see any use for, when I have Twitter), Playfire, Friendfeed (which is useful as heck... if anyone I knew was on it), re-discovered Del.icio.us (still have to rre-organize that), and found two cinephile social networks (Flixster and Filmcrave-- I'll be joining Flixster as soon as I post this entry). And now my friend invited me to BrightKite, which sounds like Twinkle's location detector for the non-iPod/iPhone crowd. I find it slightly creepy to be broadcasting my EXACT location at any time to the world but I'm all up for finding people near me. So I shall let you know how that goes. Of course there's also a lot of bookworm social networks like LibraryThing, and if I was anywhere near the bookworm I used to be I would join one. I wonder if there's a comic geek network. Oh, damn.
The thing about these networks though-- you need to know people on them to make them fun. That's why Twitter is more addicting to me now, as opposed to when I initially joined. Playfire... when I get a PS3 I know that's going to be an awesome site. Not sure about the rest of them. We shall see.
Lia
Dishing about your own drama and crushes in your journal is fine. If I don't share your fascination, I ignore it when I comment on the entry, if I do at all. But when you take over communities, there's a problem. I can't have my IQ drained by morons who lose their brains whenever they see someone remotely attractive and spam communities with their glee. And community wars and elitism are not cool in my book. The only locked comms I'm in are sharing comms. I'm not about to comment and demand change when it's simpler for me to just leave and seek what I thought the community was about elsewhere.
In other news, I have become a social network fiend. :/ I deleted MySpace because I never used it, but in the past week I've joined Plurk (which I can't see any use for, when I have Twitter), Playfire, Friendfeed (which is useful as heck... if anyone I knew was on it), re-discovered Del.icio.us (still have to rre-organize that), and found two cinephile social networks (Flixster and Filmcrave-- I'll be joining Flixster as soon as I post this entry). And now my friend invited me to BrightKite, which sounds like Twinkle's location detector for the non-iPod/iPhone crowd. I find it slightly creepy to be broadcasting my EXACT location at any time to the world but I'm all up for finding people near me. So I shall let you know how that goes. Of course there's also a lot of bookworm social networks like LibraryThing, and if I was anywhere near the bookworm I used to be I would join one. I wonder if there's a comic geek network. Oh, damn.
The thing about these networks though-- you need to know people on them to make them fun. That's why Twitter is more addicting to me now, as opposed to when I initially joined. Playfire... when I get a PS3 I know that's going to be an awesome site. Not sure about the rest of them. We shall see.
Lia
