In my quest to go on a social media diet, I looked at all the social networking websites I belong to. I’ve been social networking since 2003 (first one I joined was Ryze), but only one has become relevant – Facebook. Facebook has become so relevant to me, I no longer accept invitations to join the others.
Here’s what some of my friends are saying about Facebook.
- Robert Scoble explains why Facebook has become relevant all of a sudden (it’s personal).
- Dean Hua says that Facebook allows him to make a connection with people which is more important than knowing there’s 2-million people within 6-degrees of you.
- Chris Brogan loves how the various applications not only make Facebook a richer environment, but a hopping place as well.
btw, this prompted a blog post:
http://inoveryourhead.net/attention-is-power/
I was on Facebook for about a month, then canceled my account. All I could see was everyone connecting with their old friends from grade school and high school. An networking outside of your general area is a pain.
Facebook is just too… confining for me.
influencers’ attention is extremely fickle. we’ll see how long it lasts… fact is, they’re earlier adopters, so they’ll pick up on the new thing before anyone else anyway and jump ship.
Honeymoon’s over, though. Look around all the sites but Scoble’s and you’ll see that we’re talking now about the fact that we can’t port our value accrued out of the site. If I make something great there, I can’t thread it through RSS, can’t port the contact list, etc.
Nice that it lets you in, but crap that you can’t get anything back out. : )