Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Friends – I Can’t Stands it No More!
I find that I’m yearning for more simplicity in my life, not more complexity – yet these services with zazzle zoozle names and the cutesy tagsy friendsy addsies only make my life worsey. I can’t seem to find a way to organize my organization tools, I can’t even understand half of them initially – and then when I do understand them they go out and change the versions on me. Some of these things are so feature-packed I feel bad not using them, and realize I have things sitting around my desktop and my computer and my bookmarks that are just wasting space and/or distracting me from real productivity.
1. Del.icio.us – Come on! Social bookmarking? I’m done with it? Find your own links! I don’t waste time trying to find other people’s tags, who cares… And since the tagging system I can’t find any of MY OWN bookmarks. I have no idea what I tagged it, and I have tons of tags with just one link. I think I convinced myself this thing was cool because it “seemed cool”, but really it seems and is lame. Remember categories? Remember when Yahoo used to focus on that? Remember when bookmarks where just that? Bookmarks in a folder with subcategories if you need them? Logic? I’m going back to the good old days, and I’m not even syncing up my bookmarks to FireFox’s online bookmark thing because I usually only access them on MY OWN PC. What am I doing on all these different machines anyway?
2. Facebook – Just email me personally. Facebook exists because people feel like they can email you on there when they have absolutely nothing to say, and nothing to do with their lives. If what you have to say is of any real significance you would write out a basic email to me and let me know. What is this whole “What’s up?” thing?
3. Wii – This part has nothing to do with social networking, but I wanted to note that I live in midtown manhattan and outside my place there are these guys like in their early 20s waiting for Nintendo’s at 2:00 AM – I asked what are they doing? (it’s raining and freezing outside) They were arrogant and obnoxiously explained this is the only way to buy a wii, because you can’t buy them unless you wait in line in the morning like this. Well SORRY, I’m not first in line for a device intended for 10 year olds. I got over the gaming thing when I realized I wasn’t 10.
4. Digg - Evidence that what’s popular is also what’s terrible. These are the links that get sent to the top? I’d like to see this one get sent to the top so I can tell everyone how terrible their choices are, and that they need to get lives. I don’t sit around “digging” links all day – it’s a good link, I read it – move on.
5. Friends- I miss the internet when it was really for nerds, and socially awkward folk. Now it’s turned into this Apple iPod cool thing and it’s no longer an escape from the real world but an annoying reminder of how annoying we all are. Zwinky’s? Zazzle? Bebo? Even Google? If a company takes over the world why can’t it have a name like World Subsidiary Holdings or something kind of intimidating and old corporate sounding?
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Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Friends – I Can’t Stands it No More!
I find that I’m yearning for more simplicity in my life, not more complexity – yet these services with zazzle zoozle names and the cutesy tagsy friendsy addsies only make my life worsey. I can’t seem to find a way to organize my organization tools, I can’t even understand half of them initially – and then when I do understand them they go out and change the versions on me. Some of these things are so feature-packed I feel bad not using them, and realize I have things sitting around my desktop and my computer and my bookmarks that are just wasting space and/or distracting me from real productivity.
1. Del.icio.us – Come on! Social bookmarking? I’m done with it? Find your own links! I don’t waste time trying to find other people’s tags, who cares… And since the tagging system I can’t find any of MY OWN bookmarks. I have no idea what I tagged it, and I have tons of tags with just one link. I think I convinced myself this thing was cool because it “seemed cool”, but really it seems and is lame. Remember categories? Remember when Yahoo used to focus on that? Remember when bookmarks where just that? Bookmarks in a folder with subcategories if you need them? Logic? I’m going back to the good old days, and I’m not even syncing up my bookmarks to FireFox’s online bookmark thing because I usually only access them on MY OWN PC. What am I doing on all these different machines anyway?
2. Facebook – Just email me personally. Facebook exists because people feel like they can email you on there when they have absolutely nothing to say, and nothing to do with their lives. If what you have to say is of any real significance you would write out a basic email to me and let me know. What is this whole “What’s up?” thing?
3. Wii – This part has nothing to do with social networking, but I wanted to note that I live in midtown manhattan and outside my place there are these guys like in their early 20s waiting for Nintendo’s at 2:00 AM – I asked what are they doing? (it’s raining and freezing outside) They were arrogant and obnoxiously explained this is the only way to buy a wii, because you can’t buy them unless you wait in line in the morning like this. Well SORRY, I’m not first in line for a device intended for 10 year olds. I got over the gaming thing when I realized I wasn’t 10.
4. Digg - Evidence that what’s popular is also what’s terrible. These are the links that get sent to the top? I’d like to see this one get sent to the top so I can tell everyone how terrible their choices are, and that they need to get lives. I don’t sit around “digging” links all day – it’s a good link, I read it – move on.
5. Friends - I miss the internet when it was really for nerds, and socially awkward folk. Now it’s turned into this Apple iPod cool thing and it’s no longer an escape from the real world but an annoying reminder of how annoying we all are. Zwinky’s? Zazzle? Bebo? Even Google? If a company takes over the world why can’t it have a name like World Subsidiary Holdings or something kind of intimidating and old corporate sounding?
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This entry was posted on Monday, December 10th, 2007 at 7:57 am and is filed under Facebook Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.