Social Networking Progress

[enteirah]

In some ways I can't help but think social networking has gone so far back these days in terms of how people interact with one another. In days gone by, you used to have friendly communities like this on LJ where if there was something which created a lot of food for thought or you had a lot of things on your mind you were unsure of the best way forward, you could post it up here, and you'd often get a healthy raft of responses, debate and advice.

Nowadays, people have to rely on posting castrated-to-140-letter comments to the likes of Twitter which most folks don't even read, or posting stuff on Facebook/Tumblr, where the primary responses seem to be lazy-click 'xyz likes this, xyz shared this'.

We have progressed so well!

Comments

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

I feel more and more like a dinosaur every day. I don't even have a Twitter account, much less a Facebook one, and if and when the evil day does come, it will be because circumstances have forced it upon me rather than because I want it to. My main means of online communication, even now, are LJ, email, a couple of web forums and Usenet. Soon I shall be using words like "newfangled", I'm sure of it...

[enteirah]

The only reminder I even have a Facebook account now is the frequent bouts of spam I get from people on there who've clicked links and had their accounts compromised.

Twitter I've found very variable. It's very handy for keeping up with folks, but it's just so crippled on its chracter limit that it could never be used as a serious communication tool. People always say its like text messaging... but there's a good reason why they rushed to make phones and networks handle chained SMS messages (and not just for more network profit =;))!