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Sometimes I think maybe Google+ had the right idea, trying to come up with a social media network that tied the best of lots of different social media networks together. Theoretically. Like, maybe everybody should just have a Me On The Internet page. And you can subscribe to various kinds of posts by various people: blog entries? Short status updates/"tweets"? Personal pictures? Fanart? Stuff-for-people-I-know-personally? Stuff-meant-to-be-entertaining-or-informative-to-the-world-at-large? But it would theoretically be all contained in one place, whichever bits of it you wanted, so you wouldn't have to keep track of a million different social media networks. Maybe in the future this is how you contact people, through the web: there's like an online white pages that takes you to a list of ways to contact each person online, each of those ways with a different focus and privacy rating, but still generally consolidated.
Does any of that make sense? I'm not sure because I think I jumped into this post somewhere in the middle of it.
I signed up for Pinterest because I'd gotten a Facebook invite and, dang, I'm going to make sure nobody makes an account there called Rockinlibrarian before me (looking at you, random person on Twitter who apparently got the account just to enter somebody's Twitter contest. BUT GUESS WHAT. When I went to find that post, I said, "Hey, I wonder if that person STILL has that Twitter account." AND THEY DIDN'T. SO I TOOK IT BACK. Now my Twitter account is found at https://twitter.com/#!/rockinlibrarian JUST AS IT SHOULD BE). But I don't think I'll use it. It seems to be mildly less bewildering than Tumblr. But still, it's TONS AND TONS OF PICTURES, ALL OVER THE PLACE! Maybe I'm just not as visually-oriented a person as I might be? And most of the pictures are of home decorating, do-it-yourself projects and crafts, and fancy foods, all of which fill me with the sense of "HOMEMAKING: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" that I'm trying to AVOID feeling. Oh I know, there are other sorts of things on there, if I really search, but is it worth searching? And I'm not sure what I would pin if I DID pin stuff. I could devote a board to a Gallery of Martin Freeman, but that would be Obsessive and Creepy and I am not Obsessive and Creepy. Honest. I know there's a suggested board about Books, but I already barely use Goodreads.
I MEAN THINK ABOUT THAT. It's called "Goodreads" and I barely use it. It's just where I keep my List of Stuff I've Read. I know there's lots of interesting stuff that apparently happens there, but I can't get more into it than that.
What other social media can't I get into? Oh, Tumblr. Like I said, it's all the bewildering picture-overload of Pinterest but MORE ON CRACK. Pinterest at least is SOLID AND THERE AND MORE ORGANIZED, as opposed to the quickly flowing and reblogging and inside out rapidly-flicking GIF-osity that is Tumblr. I also don't like that the only way to comment on tumblr is to reblog something. I DO envy Tumblr for the "like" feature, though. I wish there was a "like" feature on LiveJournal, so I might know if people read these but just don't have time or inclination to comment. Then again, maybe then I'd just notice that nobody "likes" me, and that would be depressing.
I suspect that a lot of the new social media things, the smaller ones, the "check in" types, are all linked to Smartphones And Other Things People Carry Around With Them As Opposed To Trying To Keep Up With During Limited At-Desk Time. I used to try to do all my computer stuff during naptime, but my kids won't give me naptime anymore so now I just try to do it in spurts. I've been trying to write this entry for two hours now but it keeps being interrupted, for example. And my daughter confettied a box of bandaids and my son shredded a cassette tape. But maybe I've gotten off the subject because there's a two-year-old throwing a fit in the next room.
So what this comes down to is SOCIAL MEDIA IS TOO MANYS AND TOO CRAZYS. Then again I said the same thing about Twitter before and now Twitter is probably my favorite social media thing I've got. So never mind. Now I'm going to make dinner.
Does any of that make sense? I'm not sure because I think I jumped into this post somewhere in the middle of it.
I signed up for Pinterest because I'd gotten a Facebook invite and, dang, I'm going to make sure nobody makes an account there called Rockinlibrarian before me (looking at you, random person on Twitter who apparently got the account just to enter somebody's Twitter contest. BUT GUESS WHAT. When I went to find that post, I said, "Hey, I wonder if that person STILL has that Twitter account." AND THEY DIDN'T. SO I TOOK IT BACK. Now my Twitter account is found at https://twitter.com/#!/rockinlibrarian JUST AS IT SHOULD BE). But I don't think I'll use it. It seems to be mildly less bewildering than Tumblr. But still, it's TONS AND TONS OF PICTURES, ALL OVER THE PLACE! Maybe I'm just not as visually-oriented a person as I might be? And most of the pictures are of home decorating, do-it-yourself projects and crafts, and fancy foods, all of which fill me with the sense of "HOMEMAKING: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" that I'm trying to AVOID feeling. Oh I know, there are other sorts of things on there, if I really search, but is it worth searching? And I'm not sure what I would pin if I DID pin stuff. I could devote a board to a Gallery of Martin Freeman, but that would be Obsessive and Creepy and I am not Obsessive and Creepy. Honest. I know there's a suggested board about Books, but I already barely use Goodreads.
I MEAN THINK ABOUT THAT. It's called "Goodreads" and I barely use it. It's just where I keep my List of Stuff I've Read. I know there's lots of interesting stuff that apparently happens there, but I can't get more into it than that.
What other social media can't I get into? Oh, Tumblr. Like I said, it's all the bewildering picture-overload of Pinterest but MORE ON CRACK. Pinterest at least is SOLID AND THERE AND MORE ORGANIZED, as opposed to the quickly flowing and reblogging and inside out rapidly-flicking GIF-osity that is Tumblr. I also don't like that the only way to comment on tumblr is to reblog something. I DO envy Tumblr for the "like" feature, though. I wish there was a "like" feature on LiveJournal, so I might know if people read these but just don't have time or inclination to comment. Then again, maybe then I'd just notice that nobody "likes" me, and that would be depressing.
I suspect that a lot of the new social media things, the smaller ones, the "check in" types, are all linked to Smartphones And Other Things People Carry Around With Them As Opposed To Trying To Keep Up With During Limited At-Desk Time. I used to try to do all my computer stuff during naptime, but my kids won't give me naptime anymore so now I just try to do it in spurts. I've been trying to write this entry for two hours now but it keeps being interrupted, for example. And my daughter confettied a box of bandaids and my son shredded a cassette tape. But maybe I've gotten off the subject because there's a two-year-old throwing a fit in the next room.
So what this comes down to is SOCIAL MEDIA IS TOO MANYS AND TOO CRAZYS. Then again I said the same thing about Twitter before and now Twitter is probably my favorite social media thing I've got. So never mind. Now I'm going to make dinner.
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Date: 2012-02-13 01:11 am (UTC)From:Re: Pinterest
Date: 2012-02-13 02:54 pm (UTC)From:Like I said, I suppose I could make my OWN categories of things, but what...
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