It is no secret that social networks are the “in” thing. Social networks keep you in touch with other people. Mainly, I think they serve as a way to give new insight into the people you know. Facebook and MySpace probably the most well-known networks. I don’t use MySpace, mainly because it is just a jumbled mess of crap cluttered. Since the advent of Facebook Apps, Facebook has a slight tendency to be a little cluttered, as well, but not nearly as flagrant as MySpace.
As you know from my previous post about Facebook, I use it mainly as a way to keep tabs on current and old friends. However, the type and amount of information presented by Facebook gives me the larger bullet points of events in friends’ lives. It isn’t all that personal.
Flickr is a photo (and now video!) sharing site and is probably my favorite social network of all time. That’s a little biased though, as I love photography. Also, I can’t say I know (as in actually have met) too many of the people I keep in touch with on Flickr, because very few of my “real life” friends or my family actually use it. I like Flickr because photography is something I enjoy and the site allows me to find people who have similar photography styles and interest, while also exposing me to different styles of photography.
Recently, though, I have come across a new (well, new to me, at least) type of social networking. And that is the micro-blog. There are many, and the one that reigns supreme is Twitter. Now, I could write a few sentences trying to explain, but the video embedded just below does just such a darn good job of it.
See? Wasn’t that a great video explanation? Twitter is incredibly fun. I find myself tweeting (we call posts on twitter “tweets.” Keep up with the lingo) just about everything. I say Good morning when I awaken, I announce when I am hungry and going to find food, and I tell everyone what I’m watching on tv. Hmm, I just remembered that I taped Battlestar Galactica last night and haven’t watched it yet. See, I could tweet that.
I encourage you to give Twitter a shot. It’s cool. If you join, Follow me.
P.S. If you join I highly recommend downloading and using a desktop client. I use Twitterrific for the Mac, but there are Mac/Windows clients such as twhirl.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
What’s this “desktop” you speak of? I have one application on my computer, and it’s a web browser. In fact, my operating system is Firefox… What’s windows? Never heard of it.. *yawn*
April 21st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
do you know any information about this subject in other languages?
April 21st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
@Bayrak Sorry, I only speak english and very little HTML. :)