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Google Plus

Last month I said goodbye to Facebook and Twitter. I did the best I could to erase my tracks–as if I’d never used those websites.

Then I started using more Google Plus.

G+ takes the best features from Facebook, Twitter, and a good ol’ fashioned blog and combines them in one convenient package. G+ has communities and groups, picture and video sharing, social networking, and all that stuff.

So far so good, I’m really enjoying the experience. Seems like right now it’s mostly techies that use G+ but that also has the added bonus of less high school drama.

I can still honestly say that I don’t miss Facebook or Twitter one bit.

Facebook? What was I thinking

Joined FB a few years ago. Stopped blogging. Big mistake.

FB and Twitter are highly overrated. It’s the equivalent of people sticking their heads out the upstairs window, shouting to the world their thoughts and feelings and what they’re doing at the moment. Nobody cares. There’s no discussion.

And the drama… sometimes FB feels a bit like high school. I’m almost 40 years old. I don’t need the high school drama in my life any more.

And isn’t FB starting to feel a little creepy? Following you around the web, commenting on your browsing habits, “your friend so-and-so likes this page!” What?

That’s all for now.

Twitter and Facebook

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.