This is my first attempt at a public blog. I’ve had several of the major sites. Scroll down to “My own blog” to see my discussion on this blog
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
- CouchSurfing — I travel and host. But they ‘don’t want to be a “social networking” site. ‘
- Classmates.com — These reunion sites are just spammers right. I’ve created an account on a few, but they just market to you.
- deviantART — Some great art — Haven’t posted
- Facebook — they are GOD. Only not the one you should worship. I still use them, and its almost required if you want to keep in touch. It’s cheaper than flyering — who reads them any more anyway.
- Fetlife — yea, I like to keep life interesting.
- Flickr — isn’t this a picture site, what about photobucket or the others?
- LiveJournal — never been a big blogger (see note on me and blogging — “My Own Blog”) so I never used it much.
- Meetup.com — Honestly I’ve never used it much. Interesting, and limited. I friend people with similear interests, and they can invite me to events on facebook or myspace, and post what they are doing NOW. AND They are free. Granted the participants don’t pay.
- MySpace — Was an active user, and still prefer it over Facebook. Perfect for what’s happening NOW. i.e. events. Rather than all the oh I’m feeling xyz, or just stubbed my toe. It died when people started saying I’m bored rather than hey I am doing xyz come join. That and when people started posting a dozen surveys (because they are bored) more than one, and you should put them in your blog/notes/etc. A cool quote is fine, but not a dozen bulletins — It got to where people had to post a dozen legit bulletins to override the stupid ones.
- tribe.net — I follow the ten principles. This was a great site till they tried to do an upgrade during the peak demand time after the burn of ’08. Now no one uses it, but there are several attempts to get people to use it again. Especially with Facebook being too GOD Like and not as responsible as even google is now that its slipping.
- Twitter — Don’t participate. I have an account. And even have another account that is private to track my phone. I’ve lost it 2 times, and vowed never to let it happen again.
- Vampirefreaks.com — I never used, I just had some friends I wanted to reach.
- Xanga — Heck people used to be torn between this and Myspace. Ok not really this was the kids version, but then they all came to myspace and ruined it. Myspace is more mature than that.
- Yelp, Inc. — Isn’t this a business ratings and comments web site. Ok sure you can have friends… but still
- Linked-in — Gee wiz what does business networking not count as social networking. If Yelp and Flikr can make it this one sure does. Though I don’t use it much. They are extremely restrictive. How can I network under those conditions.
- My own blog. I installed some blog back in 2005 where I wrote privately all my gripes to bring to a relationship councilor. Kinda a diary just to get things out there and off my mind. Similar to this but this is public topics. The thing I like about having it on my own server, I can add, remove, and do whatever on my own… not at a whim because someone didn’t like me one day and flagged it…. Just don’t read it, and move on–You are stifling. Heck I once had a pic flagged for a float that went down a public street in New Orleans. No there were no topless women or bottomless men. Plus, It can actually make it into search engines. Facebook is closed. Also, I can say who can see it… If I have a private or semi-private post, I can actually say these users can see it. Ok I can do that on Facebook, but if I allow the wrong person to see something, there it goes again deleted. I can add widgets. Yea, I thought about a CMS system like Joomla and Drupal — I even setup a wiki as well as a project management site once. These things just are kinda tough, and even all the crappy plugin’s seem to be for a fee. I can use HTML, perl, java, serverside commands, and my own databases just as easily. Things I really wanted are authentication, project management and/or ticket system, and an easy way for standard users to update a site–all within the same database setup. Polls, and everything else would just be a bonus. WordPress can do all the basics (and has tons of widgets/plugins/themes/etc), then I’ll just get an independent project management and/or ticket system to supplement it if I need to. Heck perhaps I can share the database or authentication. I see there is OPEN AUTH or something to handle that stuff. Oh yea, and I can find the stuff I like again in the future. Who looking back on facebook can be a challenge.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully
Some I’ve never done:
- Bebo — just heard the name
- BlackPlanet — Slowed down the computers at work more than Myspace ever did
- delicious — also pretty much just heard the name, and see the delicious logo on all the blogs.
