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I just witnessed my first defriend of someone due to a use of Twitter. I admit, I hate twitter. And while I usually like tech things, tech social things, there's just something about "microblogging" that I can't really stand.
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metaphorge posted a little elitist post/dialogue/banter between him and another twitterer (twitterites? twitteree, twitterist?) about all the hate people have and how that's the price of being an early adopter.
So there were a couple of replies stating that they were one of the haters. I too, mentioned my dislike of it, though again, I guess it has a use if you're one of those active people who have some social life, or something, I guess. Anyways, someone said they were sick of Twitter filling up their LJ pages, and another one replied and said, me too, and I'm drawing the line in the sand. And basically defriendedmetaphorge
And this got me thinking. I really dislike twitter myself. I dislike the seemingly vapid one liners it forces people to use. Not as bad as text messaging, but surely not as "deep" as a regular post (which is really fucking sad). So, I like to see a bit more depth. That's not to say every once a while, a short fun post is bad, of course, I do it all the time... But when it's just twitter this and that, well, ok, alright, whatever.
And it's not like you can skip over it, because by the time you see it, you've already absorbed it, because it's so short.
I don't think I would defriend someone for using twitter. I mean, if it turns out that's all they do (and looking back, it appears that IS allmetaphorge is using, *sigh*), then maybe. But the point being, in the future, with the OpenSocial API and a more interconnected social networking world, we're going to see more and more of this kind of thing. Twitter posts on LJ, MySpace users will corrupt my friends list...
While in theory, I desire a world of interconnectedness, there are certain cultures in each of these sites/communities... Sometimes these cultures don't fully mesh. What happens when one culture invades another with a "lower level" of sophistication? When we're bombarded by stupid posts from rejects (or even celebreties) from a community/world we don't normally mesh with (but who may already be with our world/service in a culture that we do relate to), what happens? How do we control that?
And this is the issue: Currently control over filtering and selection is primarily done by an author. Viewing, at most, is done at a very basic level of granularity: You can subscribe to a given feed or not. There really isn't any in between. The poster/author can many times select ways to filter. Whether it's a basic public/private, or LJ's public/private/friends... or LJ's more advanced filtering. Or an LJ-Cut tag... The primary source of the ability to filter lies in the hand of the author, not the viewer.
I suppose someone could implement a greasemonkey script that scans for certain types of content and "blocks" or "lj-cuts" the info so you don't have to see it/deal with it.
This way, you can still enjoy the longer posts, or posts about a topic you enjoy from an individual even if they don't stop posting things you might consider inane.
Is this part of the social network future? Or is it an idea that's dead in the water
So
metaphorge posted a little elitist post/dialogue/banter between him and another twitterer (twitterites? twitteree, twitterist?) about all the hate people have and how that's the price of being an early adopter.So there were a couple of replies stating that they were one of the haters. I too, mentioned my dislike of it, though again, I guess it has a use if you're one of those active people who have some social life, or something, I guess. Anyways, someone said they were sick of Twitter filling up their LJ pages, and another one replied and said, me too, and I'm drawing the line in the sand. And basically defriended
metaphorgeAnd this got me thinking. I really dislike twitter myself. I dislike the seemingly vapid one liners it forces people to use. Not as bad as text messaging, but surely not as "deep" as a regular post (which is really fucking sad). So, I like to see a bit more depth. That's not to say every once a while, a short fun post is bad, of course, I do it all the time... But when it's just twitter this and that, well, ok, alright, whatever.
And it's not like you can skip over it, because by the time you see it, you've already absorbed it, because it's so short.
I don't think I would defriend someone for using twitter. I mean, if it turns out that's all they do (and looking back, it appears that IS all
metaphorge is using, *sigh*), then maybe. But the point being, in the future, with the OpenSocial API and a more interconnected social networking world, we're going to see more and more of this kind of thing. Twitter posts on LJ, MySpace users will corrupt my friends list...While in theory, I desire a world of interconnectedness, there are certain cultures in each of these sites/communities... Sometimes these cultures don't fully mesh. What happens when one culture invades another with a "lower level" of sophistication? When we're bombarded by stupid posts from rejects (or even celebreties) from a community/world we don't normally mesh with (but who may already be with our world/service in a culture that we do relate to), what happens? How do we control that?
And this is the issue: Currently control over filtering and selection is primarily done by an author. Viewing, at most, is done at a very basic level of granularity: You can subscribe to a given feed or not. There really isn't any in between. The poster/author can many times select ways to filter. Whether it's a basic public/private, or LJ's public/private/friends... or LJ's more advanced filtering. Or an LJ-Cut tag... The primary source of the ability to filter lies in the hand of the author, not the viewer.
I suppose someone could implement a greasemonkey script that scans for certain types of content and "blocks" or "lj-cuts" the info so you don't have to see it/deal with it.
This way, you can still enjoy the longer posts, or posts about a topic you enjoy from an individual even if they don't stop posting things you might consider inane.
Is this part of the social network future? Or is it an idea that's dead in the water
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