I really don't understand it and if someone could enlighten me that would be great. I have noticed that there are a lot of websites out there that allow people to post to all of their social networks at the same time and while, sure, a majority of people who are involved in social networking do have more than one account out there, do they not realize that their "friendbase", or the people that are actually seeing these updates, are also on a majority of these sites? Meaning, someone like me has to see the same update on twitter, facebook, plurk, myspace, etc, etc. This causes there to be a lot of clutter and eventually forces me to delete people from one or all of my accounts.
What happened to originality?
Is it really all that difficult to sign in to each of the accounts that you choose to have and use it like it was intended?
Or has the laziness of socitey spread to the internet, where a click of the mouse and a few key strokes has now become too much effort for us to set forth?
2 comments:
It's not laziness, it's just that many people have friends that are on only one of the various social networks.
I have no interest in using Facebook for "its intended purpose" but there are a LOT of people on there who aren't on any of the services I do use, but who want to engage with me via it. (albeit in a one-way fashion.)
I do realize that a lot of people are on both, and if I used both I'd be annoyed too. But I don't :)
So maybe the lesson here is don't use every social network? :)
Really, though, is it fair of you to call someone ELSE lazy because they post things that you don't want to have to take the time to turn off?
Its not that I don't want to take the time to turn off the updates, I just didn't necessarily want to delete people off of each site.
Its seeming like that is the only alternative at this point though.
Oh well! :)
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