So, I Left Facebook…
Posted by Andrew | Filed under Social Networking
…and I have never been happier. At least as far as my online social life is concerned. I logged onto Facebook for the first time in nearly three weeks last night, and it was just the same crap hole that I left. I can’t believe that I even gave Facebook the time of day. The only reason I left it open was so that my “friends” (those quotes mean something) could still find my email address and phone number so that they could contact me in real life. My about me right now goes a little something like this:
Do not send me a message, do not post to my wall, do not poke me, and do not invite me to your stupid applications and groups. Seriously, here’s my email address and my phone number. If you don’t know how to use either of those, then I don’t want to hear from you.
I’m happy because if I want to share photos with people online, I can use Flickr. If I want to share some video that I made, I can use YouTube. If I want to update my status, my Twitter account is always up for the job. At least most of the time. FriendFeed ties it all together very nicely for me, and they all work a thousand times better than Facebook could ever hope to work at this point.
Twitter is now the talk of the town, and I’m not referring to Leo Laporte’s obsession with it. Nope, it is the talk of all the major news sources. And I think Mark Zuckerberg (if I misspelled his name, well, whatever) should be afraid of Twitter. People are quickly moving to more open systems of social networking. We no longer want to just talk to our 5,000 closest friends. No, we want to broadcast to the entire world in simple messages. Eventually, the free exchange of ideas, links, videos, and photos of cats will win out against what is really an outdated communication technology.
