Well, now I can say I use this more than Facebook...
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In all honesty, I'm only blowing the dust off this thing (Last non-automated post was March, and I didn't post anything pertinent? Wow.) because I just realized that I am probably one of the few people in the world who doesn't use Facebook. At all. In spite of having an account. And it's probably for the better, as Facebook is getting what's coming to them. Good luck combing through their privacy policy, FTC! It's longer than the Constitution, and it seems alot of people up in Washington have trouble understanding that! (Whoa! Getting political here!)
But yeah, it's weirdly liberating not even checking Facebook. Even if it's mostly been replaced by Twitter. As much as I'd like to say replaced by Google+, when no one that I actually care about is on there, it's pretty much just a worse Twitter. If my friends were, in fact, on there, then it'd be a solid Facebook replacement. But I guess it's all in how you use each? Ehh, whatever. It's weird... Google+ seems superior to Facebook in every way but number of users. And a social network needs users to be successful. I guess what this paragraph is trying to say is, "Google, why the fuck did you launch G+ as a closed beta? 'Closed social network' is a logical fallacy."
Now if only I was as much of a social butterfly in class as I am on the internet... It's weird, as my original thought process for using Twitter was that it was for socializing with anonymous types that I don't personally know but still converse with alot over the internet, and that Facebook was for people I actually "knew". But it feels like the majority of people I actually "knew"... I just don't care about anymore after the Beers Street Incident separated my academic path from theirs. It's weird... I rarely socialize with people outside of the context where I run into them. People from school I talk with at school. Co-workers (when I have a job... "job creators" my ass) I only talk with at work. Internet people I only talk to over the internet. Family I only talk to at family gatherings (parents excluded). And while that's the principal that Google made Google+ on (we have all these different social circles that don't overlap, so why share everything with everyone?), it's obviously not one that works all the time. There needs to be some bleed. How? Why? ...That's up to me. And therein lies the difficulty.
In all honesty, I'm only blowing the dust off this thing (Last non-automated post was March, and I didn't post anything pertinent? Wow.) because I just realized that I am probably one of the few people in the world who doesn't use Facebook. At all. In spite of having an account. And it's probably for the better, as Facebook is getting what's coming to them. Good luck combing through their privacy policy, FTC! It's longer than the Constitution, and it seems alot of people up in Washington have trouble understanding that! (Whoa! Getting political here!)
But yeah, it's weirdly liberating not even checking Facebook. Even if it's mostly been replaced by Twitter. As much as I'd like to say replaced by Google+, when no one that I actually care about is on there, it's pretty much just a worse Twitter. If my friends were, in fact, on there, then it'd be a solid Facebook replacement. But I guess it's all in how you use each? Ehh, whatever. It's weird... Google+ seems superior to Facebook in every way but number of users. And a social network needs users to be successful. I guess what this paragraph is trying to say is, "Google, why the fuck did you launch G+ as a closed beta? 'Closed social network' is a logical fallacy."
Now if only I was as much of a social butterfly in class as I am on the internet... It's weird, as my original thought process for using Twitter was that it was for socializing with anonymous types that I don't personally know but still converse with alot over the internet, and that Facebook was for people I actually "knew". But it feels like the majority of people I actually "knew"... I just don't care about anymore after the Beers Street Incident separated my academic path from theirs. It's weird... I rarely socialize with people outside of the context where I run into them. People from school I talk with at school. Co-workers (when I have a job... "job creators" my ass) I only talk with at work. Internet people I only talk to over the internet. Family I only talk to at family gatherings (parents excluded). And while that's the principal that Google made Google+ on (we have all these different social circles that don't overlap, so why share everything with everyone?), it's obviously not one that works all the time. There needs to be some bleed. How? Why? ...That's up to me. And therein lies the difficulty.