Facebook vs. Livejournal vs. Mobile Me
Facebook is really starting to take up a larger part of my life than I am comfortable with. When I looked at the terms of service, I am concerned that there are areas that they seem to have too much control. I use it to connect to friends, but I don't post as much as I would if I knew that my answers were protected. Of course, I am not going to be the crazy person who disses work that I will still be at (like the growing number of people who use myspace and facebook at work to complain about work) - they get fired too fast. At the same time, there are issues with facebook that means my writing and my photos belong to them! That is a bit too much.
Live journal has a lot of privacy settings, but I don't use it as freely as I could. There have been more than one instance when I left something unprotected that I thought should have been protected. Well, there were a couple of times that the unprotected journals worked. I don't upload photos to LJ because I am not a full paid member, but I am not sure if I really want to do that. If I plan to do Memes, I would probably do them here, but I wrote about my feelings on Memes....
I belong to mobile me (also known as the old .Mac service). There are blogging functions, gallery functions, and other things, but I am not sure if there are privacy controls. Mostly, it is used to sync my calendars, keep photo albums and keep my e-mail together. I was doing a simple photo blog on it at one time, but I stopped because it is hard enough to keep track of things here and on the other sites I follow.
So... I will leave Facebook for networking and fun, Live Journal for blogging with privacy, and Mobile Me as my e-mail, syncing and some photo album source.
Live journal has a lot of privacy settings, but I don't use it as freely as I could. There have been more than one instance when I left something unprotected that I thought should have been protected. Well, there were a couple of times that the unprotected journals worked. I don't upload photos to LJ because I am not a full paid member, but I am not sure if I really want to do that. If I plan to do Memes, I would probably do them here, but I wrote about my feelings on Memes....
I belong to mobile me (also known as the old .Mac service). There are blogging functions, gallery functions, and other things, but I am not sure if there are privacy controls. Mostly, it is used to sync my calendars, keep photo albums and keep my e-mail together. I was doing a simple photo blog on it at one time, but I stopped because it is hard enough to keep track of things here and on the other sites I follow.
So... I will leave Facebook for networking and fun, Live Journal for blogging with privacy, and Mobile Me as my e-mail, syncing and some photo album source.