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Social Networking Fatigue?

I’m getting Social Networking Fatigue - are you?

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15 Responses to “Social Networking Fatigue?”

  1. I’d reply but I’m far too fatigued.

    My social networking “fatigue” is actually more “ridiculous deadline fatigue.” When my deadlines are slipping or the clients have expectations that are demanding, it looks bad if I’m playing around on the social nets. Of course, sending a quick Twitter over Twhirl is not big deal. It’s almost a refreshing break from thinking about code and can take just a few seconds. But to the client who may very well be on that social net, it looks like I’m goofing off. My social network slowdowns are almost always related to deadlines and projecting the right image.

    “Social networking fatigue”? I’d say when life has us a bit overwhelmed we probably become less inspired to be on the social networks just like we become less inspired to be social in real life.

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    Steve Purkiss reply on May 12, 2008 12:34 pm:

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  2. :raises hand: Fatigued here.

    I’ve not Tweeted except for very little - and I have a few sites set up to automatically Tweet, but I can’t say those count. I’ve not been to Seesmic in a while; I’ve not even updated my thread about my son there. About the only thing I do on Facebook at the moment is play Scrabulous just so I can have some kind of ‘mental breaks’ through the day. I keep threatening to drop MySpace and have since January - and as soon as I can come up with a decent ‘farewell’ letter, it’s going.

    I’m on Bebo — but I’m only there because my sons are both there. It’s a great way to keep up with them and their friends.

    Thing is, there are just so many social networks out there and more cropping up daily, seems like. My problem is sorting out which ones are actually doing something for me and which aren’t. For example, I’m leaving MySpace because I’ve been there three years and can’t see what it’s done for me.

    I second what Doug said about deadlines, too. I’ve already missed two, mostly due to poor scheduling. However, I’m working on that. I simply must create and adhere to a good, working schedule. Immediately.

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    Steve Purkiss reply on May 12, 2008 3:33 pm:

    Hi Mari - glad to see I’m not the only one!

    I’m also interested to see projects like this one for a decentralized twitter:

    http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2008/05/09/prototype-for-distributed-decentralised-microblogging-using-semantics/

    I think this is a precursor for the way forward - currently there’s lots of sites springing up but at the end of the day you should be able to keep hold of your data then choose to publish it to whomever, rather than lots of big companies telling you what they’ll let you do with it.

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    Mari Adkins reply on May 12, 2008 7:23 pm:

    Oh that looks terrific! And I agree - at the end of the day, it’s my information/data. :)

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  3. nice widget! :)

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    Steve Purkiss reply on May 12, 2008 5:17 pm:

    Indeed - it’s phantastic! ;)

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    Mari Adkins reply on May 12, 2008 7:22 pm:

    Have had trouble getting mine to work properly. However, I think it’s a webhost issue and not a website/Mari issue.

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    Doug McCaughan reply on May 13, 2008 1:57 am:

    Mmmm. That is a nice widget, Kosso!

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    Steve Purkiss reply on May 13, 2008 11:33 am:

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  6. I don’t think I’m fatigued, personally, but I do feel like a lot of these social networking sites lack a proper application. I am so fed up with getting invites on Facebook to ‘be a zombie/vampire/pirate’ or ‘compare/sell/weigh my friends’ that I have all but abandoned it.

    I’m not sick of networking per se, but I do hope we end up with a system where the individual controls how they use it. Doug nailed it for me in his last comment. I use foomandoonian.net as my own personal networking hub, and I’m hoping with Friend Connect, XFN and all these other info sharing standards that I will be able to transform it into something much more useful. I think this is a good model.

    I’m still enjoying Twitter a great deal though, but I don’t think there was ever a point to that!

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