Social network balkanization

[mindstalk]

So, lyceum has declared she's actively dumping Facebook for Google+. mlc23 has been more active on G+, as well as retreating much of her content to a private blog. Google+ reportedly now has games, so presumably you can soon play Farmville there instead of on FB. anima views LJ/DW as online community things (like fandom circles), not friend following, whereas for me it's always primarily been about real friends, e.g. joining to comment on her posts and posting myself once lyceum and shiver had joined and followed me, and being happy when mlc23 gave up her *first* private blog to come here.

Le frigging sigh.

At dinner yesterday I mentioned boosting LJ over FB and the fandom-media teacher next to me said "no, Dreamwidth!" Heh.

Me, I'm tempted to cancel FB myself, what with all the changes and privacy leaks, but admit it's hard what with so many other people using it, and even some groups.

Comments

[cleverthylacine]

I would completely dump FB if it weren't that so many job ads request that you have one. :(

[mindstalk]

Really? Wack.

[februaryfour]

It's actually really hard to leave FB because of ALL the contacts. I don't ever log in unless people send me a message, or I'll use it to contact people I otherwise don't know how to contact. That's about it.

[mindstalk]

Yeah, I haven't even gotten to the level of not logging in. OTOH, I was never at the level of posting anything important there, or only there; in a way I've never used FB the way FB wants me to.

Unrelatedly, I've found that my style here is, well, kind of crowded and overdone at least on my small eee screen, but it also has an Active Entries module, bringing to DW if not LJ some of the functionality 'real' blogs have had. Oooo.