What’s with Social Networking?
by beck ~ May 18th, 2008. Filed under: blogging.Bebo, Facebook, Myspace, plus many more types of social networking sites, I just don’t get them. Why would anybody want to share their heart and soul with the world?
I recently had to open a facebook account so I could request removal of content on one of their pages on behalf of a friend who did not know how to use the internet. The author gladly obliged and apologised not realising the implications of what they had written. But of course since signing up I have received friends requests, requests to install applications and scarily, have noted an old school class photo with me in it!!
So I look around some facebooks and see some people post up their whole lives up their. Not just likes and dislikes, but what they are doing that day, where they work, date of birth and whole life history. Surely these are ID thefts waiting to happen?
And what’s with Twitter? Why would anyone want to know what I am doing at any given moment? Are they interested in when I am eating? Or when I am in the toilet?
So what is next for social networking? How about a chip embedded in a persons arm which uploads periodically every movement of their body with GPS so they do not even have to be at a PC? People will then know you are in the pub or flexing your bottom muscles in the toilet.
Please, nobody send me any more invites to social networking sites. If I want a life blog I will create one 
May 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I love social networking sites and Twitter, but with social networking sites I limit the access everyone has. Like real life, close friends have full access, work people limited and people from the net that added me very limited one to the extent that they can’t see where I work, etc.
Twitter is great for communication and being in contact with people everywhere. http://carocat.co.uk/2008/04/21/why-you-should-give-twitter-a-try/
And yeah, I’m generally interested in what the people on my Twitter eat!!
May 18th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
HI Cat, I can barely keep up with my blog, let alone updating people with my every movement!
Perhaps its the openness I do not like and perhaps I simply want to be myself and not let people into my private stuff. Anyway my private life is boring and nobody would want to know what I eat and when I sleep
May 18th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
P.S. I am having rump steak tonight
May 18th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Yeah, that’s the thing about Twitter though, it’s just a sentence, you know. I’m finding it so much easier than blogging [and you’ve seen how my blog is empty so often!].
And my life isn’t that interesting either, it’s more that there’s a conversation in Twitter, it’s like at any point I’m connected to people all over the world.
And that sounds nice!
May 18th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I had my steak, it was a little rarer than I wanted it, but was okay. I should have put it in the oven for a few minutes to even over.
So do you really want to be connected to everybody all the time?
May 18th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Of course another thing is I would forget to update something like twitter so would end up having a constant poo or something.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:30 am
I do like being connected to everyone all the time and then there’s always the time when I do temporarily shut Twitter off.
I like just asking a question on Twitter and getting replies from different people instantly and rather than a say chatroom people just chime in when they’re bored/have time/have something to say.
Twitter was down for maintenance the other day and I have to say I missed it in those 24 h it was working properly!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Like having your right arm removed eh?
May 20th, 2008 at 8:51 am
You joke, but it felt like I was cut off from the world! Sure, I’ve got IM, email and such, but Twitter is just such background thing I’m always used to having it!
May 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I have to agree with Becks - Facebook - Why???!? I’ve tried really hard but I just don’t get it.
As for Twitter, I’ve juyst tried setting up a Twitter network for just my gaming friends to use - thought it may be a good way for us all to stay in touch … time will tell though
June 1st, 2008 at 11:10 am
HI Pleb!!
So how are you getting on with Twitter now?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 am
Ha well it’s only as good as the content contributed to it - the majority of our “gang” havent’t bought into to - so it is rendered useless.
The text update is a nice idea - but it splits a simple message into 3 texts, which = x 3 in cost - so seems a waste of messages.
So far - far from convinced
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
LOL well at least you tried it. I thought it may have worked on a site like yours as you have groups of visitors, but I suppose there is only so much information people can be bothered to share.