Poll: Do you use social networking sites?
Thursday May 1, 2008
Do you use social networking sites?
I use several social networking sites on a (semi) regular basis:
There are a few other sites (like Dogologie DogPark and The Gaia Community and Shelfari) that I am a member of but I forget to update. Are you a member of these types of sites? Why or why not? Do you find them fun or a time sink (or both <grin>)? Let us know in the comments.
Comments
Is it just me, or is the “No” Radio Button not working correctly?
No, it isn’t working for me either. I hope you aren’t trying to sway the results!
Mwuhahahaha you’ve discovered my nefarious plot, now I’ll have to kill you …
Seriously, it has something to do with how About.com builds the JavaScript and their CSS and the phase of the moon and what browser you’re using. I’ve reported it to the developers, but they haven’t been able to replicate it. Can’t fix what the can’t see.
I’m working on fiddling with the blog post to see if I can jury-rig it. But as you can see from the results, some people can vote no…
In Firefox, I couldn’t check the second option, (Yes, periodically). In IE7 the poll form worked as it should. In Opera, I couldn’t check the NO option.
Dean: wow, that’s almost completely opposite my experience. It worked fine in Opera, and I couldn’t click submit or “no” in Firefox and Safari. I didn’t try in IE.
Getting back to the topic at hand, I now try NOT to use SNS, unless they are *useful*.
LinkedIn: *Very* useful. No noise, all signal.
Facebook: Used to be useful, now is one big abstraction layer hell-slash-privacy-liability. Some friend sends me a msg via ‘Application’…I have to install it, set privacy, just to read: ‘How are you doing?’ Meh.
MySpace: Was already the above described nightmare that FaceBook has become. Blue is rapidly becoming my *least* favorite color.
Twitter / Jaiku / Tumblr: I *thought* these were useful at one point, now I see that they are noise. RSS firehoses of noise.
Mixi / Sexii / Xing: These are SNS’s in other languages. Hey, I can keep my Japanese up and pretend I still understand German. And friends are there! Very useful for long distance backchanneling.
Since the NO button won’t work for me on firefox either, let me shout it out: NO!
It is waist of time,
maybe for youth
i am enough busy in internet with my work
People using social networking site for social activities and make friends. The webmaster of networking site make money through advertisement, but the user get nothing….
Let me shout it from the rooftops, “NO!”
I use Ravelry.com daily, which is more akin to a social web application in that it links your personal inventory of items (in this case, yarn, patterns, & projects) to other users’ items and allows members to see who’s done what with whatever and where they got it, plus their opinions on it. In short, it’s a powerful relational database of user-uploaded content built on open source technology.
NO! I did try Facebook once but became quickly irritated by friends’ incessant invitations to join time-wasting apps. Then there is the privacy issue….
I don’t use them. (I had no problem checking no with Firefox.)
I spend way… too much time on the computer, between work and play as it is!!