Everyone complains, social-media edition
Sep. 30th, 2013 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexHere's the problem:
FB is read-only. I don't want anything of mine up there because I don't want FB-the-company getting its paws on it. Thing 1 recently got his own FB page (mostly so he can get in-game bonuses for clicking "Like" buttons) and we had to explain to him that whatever he puts up there does not belong to him, it belongs to that company. We talked about some of the things that company does with stuff people put there.
That said, I rarely ever read FB in about the same way I never get a hamburger at McDonald's. I could. It wouldn't kill me. I'd get something out of it (like knowing what the heck my brother is up to) but the concept is nauseating.
Google+ is write-only. I cannot bear to try reading there because they've made the UI so hostile to textual discussion, and made the reading stream so impossible to control. I find I'm not motivated to write there in part because I'm not reading and I have broadcast media available to me, like my blog and this LJ. I do get notifications sent to me when certain people post there, so I can try to have discussions with them but discussions don't seem to happen. Perhaps others feel hampered by the UI as well?
And then there's LJ, which everyone complains about being barren and uninteresting. People forget to post here, forget to read here, and the activity level spirals down. It's the easiest medium to write for (for me) and the one that gives me the most control over my reading. I'd like to be able to have discussions here but few people respond to my posts. So there's that.
Maybe I should try Pinstagrawhatever. Or just yell at those damned kids on my lawn some more.
FB is read-only. I don't want anything of mine up there because I don't want FB-the-company getting its paws on it. Thing 1 recently got his own FB page (mostly so he can get in-game bonuses for clicking "Like" buttons) and we had to explain to him that whatever he puts up there does not belong to him, it belongs to that company. We talked about some of the things that company does with stuff people put there.
That said, I rarely ever read FB in about the same way I never get a hamburger at McDonald's. I could. It wouldn't kill me. I'd get something out of it (like knowing what the heck my brother is up to) but the concept is nauseating.
Google+ is write-only. I cannot bear to try reading there because they've made the UI so hostile to textual discussion, and made the reading stream so impossible to control. I find I'm not motivated to write there in part because I'm not reading and I have broadcast media available to me, like my blog and this LJ. I do get notifications sent to me when certain people post there, so I can try to have discussions with them but discussions don't seem to happen. Perhaps others feel hampered by the UI as well?
And then there's LJ, which everyone complains about being barren and uninteresting. People forget to post here, forget to read here, and the activity level spirals down. It's the easiest medium to write for (for me) and the one that gives me the most control over my reading. I'd like to be able to have discussions here but few people respond to my posts. So there's that.
Maybe I should try Pinstagrawhatever. Or just yell at those damned kids on my lawn some more.
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Date: 2013-09-30 04:32 pm (UTC)Finding the time to write is just so damn hard for me right now, but I'm hoping that will be less true soon.
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Date: 2013-10-01 02:30 pm (UTC)