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Jul. 4th, 2009 12:27 pm
Methods of communication
So, I'm seeing some folks who are tapering off on LJ, and spending more time on Twitter and Facebook, which is kind of disappointing, because it's sort of scattering people, and making it difficult to maintain communities.
That said, I do spend a bit of time on Facebook myself these days, and I can see purposes for all three places, but I haven't really found a great method of using all three in concert.
I think the trick is going to be trying to find a way to integrate all of it into a single place.
At the moment, LJ is kind of an all-in-one space for me: Primarily a place to read and write long-form blog posts and participate in discussion-oriented communities, but it's also where I have all of my RSS feeds--comics, news, other blogs, etc. I can get some Twitter stuff here, but not any FB stuff at all.
Facebook, on the other hand, makes for a great address book, and will import posts from Twitter and LJ (public ones, at least), but has no real way to properly integrate RSS feeds and has truly dreadful means of keeping up with communities and modifying content based on friend groups. And Twitter, well, it's too short-form and self-contained to use for any of that.
Hmph. Clearly, I'm going to have to create my own all-in-one site somehow.
That said, I do spend a bit of time on Facebook myself these days, and I can see purposes for all three places, but I haven't really found a great method of using all three in concert.
I think the trick is going to be trying to find a way to integrate all of it into a single place.
At the moment, LJ is kind of an all-in-one space for me: Primarily a place to read and write long-form blog posts and participate in discussion-oriented communities, but it's also where I have all of my RSS feeds--comics, news, other blogs, etc. I can get some Twitter stuff here, but not any FB stuff at all.
Facebook, on the other hand, makes for a great address book, and will import posts from Twitter and LJ (public ones, at least), but has no real way to properly integrate RSS feeds and has truly dreadful means of keeping up with communities and modifying content based on friend groups. And Twitter, well, it's too short-form and self-contained to use for any of that.
Hmph. Clearly, I'm going to have to create my own all-in-one site somehow.
