My Twitter account is for following tech industry personalities. My Facebook account is all people that I know in real life.
Twitter was a good source of information for awhile. Now, in my opinion, it’s the best source of MISinformation–it’s worse than Wikipedia. Crowd sourcing has failed. Facebook was fun when it was new. Now I feel like I’ve lost control in the Facebook world. I’m afraid Facebook knows a bit too much about me–and I don’t like that.
Lately I’ve found that the people on Twitter that I follow tweet less and less about tech and more about their own lives, political thoughts, and self promotion. Sorry, but I really don’t care what insert-tech-personality’s-name-here had for breakfast or why/why not federal law trumps state law and other such nonsense.
My Facebook is filled with people that I don’t really know or don’t really like. In some cases there are people on my friends list that I don’t remember at all. I have ignored some friends requests from people–and then when I see them in person they ask “Hey, did you get my friend request on Facebook?”–awkward.
Facebook was fun to play catch-up with all the people from my past jobs, school, phases of my life, etc. Facebook was the number one reason why I didn’t go to my class reunion–I already knew what all my old classmates looked like and what they have been doing for the last 20 years.
I feel like these two social networking tools have run their course. As time goes by, I find myself caring less and less about Twitter and Facebook. I haven’t looked at Twitter in weeks, and Facebook in 3 days. Noise. That’s all it is. And I have plenty of that in my life, anyway. So much of what I’m reading on Twitter and Facebook is just crap I don’t care about. Sadly, from *people* I don’t care about.
So here I am, back where I started. Posting on my blog. Where *I* control the content. Where my *real* friends and family can read what I have to say and leave their feedback and have a conversation.
It’s good to be home.
