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Radith — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:08:20 -0000

can't agre eno more

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Eric Berlin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:24:06 -0000

Thanks Josh! I think you'll enjoy Twitter, particularly related to sports during live events.

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Eric Berlin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:23:13 -0000

Yeah, I responded to this a few times in the comments above -- I missed out on the change from "is" to simply listing the username as default before entering your message. I think that still makes leaving a status comment somewhat awkward, but concede that I flubbed on that point !

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Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:11:08 -0000

Actually, Twitter doesn't feel so much homey as immediate to me. I think if all my friends, family, etc. were on Twitter/FF it would still feel different to me than FB because of the relative openness of those platforms.

Quoting myself from above with relation to "is": I do note though that your name remains in the status box, which gives the impression that your first name will become the first word of your status update, which is slightly weird enough to annoy me, though I'll admit that's somewhat nit picky.

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Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:52:52 -0000

Thanks! And that's an awesome question. Facebook is obviously red hot right now and obviously isn't going anywhere soon. But in five years the landscape will be vastly different. Wonder what FBs place will be in it.

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Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:51:10 -0000

I agree, Mike, and it's nice to see others relating to the twitter/FF/google reader vs. FB dynamic !

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Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:48:10 -0000

That's an interesting perspective Johan, can totally see how many would feel that way. And obviously many do! :-)

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Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:47:17 -0000

Thanks Jen! And thanks for the note on "is." I do note though that your name remains in the status box, which gives the impression that your first name will become the first word of your status update, which is slightly weird enough to annoy me, though I'll admit that's somewhat nit picky.

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Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:34:08 -0000

It does bring up the whole aspect of how each community (FF, twitter, FB) could/should be set up to meet individual needs. For a long period of time I had twitter set up as you did -- fairly tightly controlled. Over time though I started experimenting with larger and larger groups of people I thought would be interesting to follow. I'm not sure how I feel about that right now. FriendFeed feels slightly friendlier to me because of I can dive into different subsets I've created fairly easily. I suppose that might be true to an extent with FB as well but to be honest I haven't investigated that far, in part due to reasons I laid out above.

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Eric Berlin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:31:33 -0000

I like that saying Scott, very interesting.

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Josh Hathaway — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:33:58 -0000

Good article, Eric. I signed up for Twitter apparently sometime last May and proceeded to write a single tweet and hadn't logged back in until today. I guess what's funny about that is my Facebook account was the same way but now I seem to have been absorbed by it. I'm not sure the same thing will happen with Twitter. I don't 'get' it yet, but I'm going to play around and see if it starts to make sense to me.

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Stanley Stevens — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:37:00 -0000

i wonder why my disqus comment i left on your blog (instead of here in FF) didn't show up. that's kinda...well, dumb.

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stanleyyork — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:35:42 -0000

yea they got rid of it months ago (mobile especially). not sure what that's about. it simply says now:

"What are you doing right now?"

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Baxter Tocher — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:32:40 -0000

I'm really not sure what the issue about the word "is" is on Facebook. Didn't they drop that *months* ago? I've just tried it, and FB certainly didn't add a spurious verb of any description.

Is this an article that was written a long time ago, and only just published now?

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stanleyyork — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:24:58 -0000

i'm curious to see who you interact with on facebook. all the people i interact with (16-25 year olds mostly) are very conversational, very similar to FF/Twitter. while it's not nearly as persistent (frequent) as twitter, i send/receive video comments, wall posts, links to stuff i find interesting and threads of conversations around posts/photos/links/videos.

all very similar to FF/Twitter right?

Yes

What's different?

the fact that all the people i'm interacting with are people i talk to in person...my friends. not "social media superstars" who rants about "the future of [fill in the blank]".

actual conversations with actual people i know/care about all with the same functionality (for the most part) as any other social networking service. but like everyone said, it all depends one who you are and what you're trying to achieve.

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Kivivi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:09:00 -0000

Interesting thoughts and comments on what what type of SN tools fit which type of personalities.

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Anarchistbrow — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:29:56 -0000

Totally agree with this sentiment. The Facebook/Twitter comparison expresses how I feel on this issue. I haven't tried friendfeee, either. I just like reading all the tweets.

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Tara Kelly — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:04:00 -0000

Twitter is for talking to/with everyone. Facebook is for talking to/with some people. Two totally different things.

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Missionary Broadcasting — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:45:00 -0000

In a way it seems Facebook knows that many of us are more Twitter/FriendFeed type people. That is why they are mimicking several of their best features. I debate dumping my Facebook account all the time; it just has very few redeeming qualities in my view.

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sofarsoshawn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:45:00 -0000

@Wesley and Ken great comments: yes Facebook seems to want to sanitize itself from the outside web and by doing so has become the "Bubble Boy" of the internet

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Wesley Guerrero — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:34:00 -0000

I have to say facebook seems to view the rest of the web as chaotic and messy and that it shouldn't be allowed on their site, to an extent they are right. But I believe they may be bordering on fascism. If I'm using the term correctly.

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Michael Becker — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:19:23 -0000

I was an early Facebook adopter -- just like I was with Twitter, though I abandoned Twitter for a while -- so I've been on the site for what seems like a long, long time. During that time, I've seen the site explode so that you can, more or less, find everybody you've ever wanted to get in touch with via FB.

Lately, though, I've had a growing urge to run away from Facebook, to cancel my account and migrate to Twitter and e-mail. If nothing else, this would make my day far more productive and make my life feel like it was a teensy bit slower-paced, which would be nice.

Problem is, EVERYBODY's on Facebook now. How do you walk away from a platform where you can find everybody -- more than that, a platform that many people check more often than their e-mail? I've found that one of the most reliable ways to get in touch with people these days is via Facebook messages.

That sort of access is invaluable to me as a journalist, and it's nice to share things with a group of people who might actually comment on them -- even if none of my friends (mostly people I've really met) don't care a whit about the kind of links I share (which newspaper has announced furloughs or which business model might save journalism).

Despite the lack of interest in my interests from my FB friends, for soliciting comments, it's still better than shouting into the Grand Canyon that is (for most users) Twitter.

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Chieze Okoye — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:59:00 -0000

Ken: yeah, I agree with you there...I'm not really saying that Facebook is going to be at the head of interoperability, per se...just that they're at the front of the market now and will, due to their already near de facto standard status, willprobably be the main tool of choice once it's a mainstream market. I think it won't be able to escape being forced to be more open at that point, tho (demand in the market, gov't intervention, etc)

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Matt Soreco — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:59:00 -0000

I use Google Reader and friendfeed more for professional development and facebook strictly to keep up with friends and relatives. I like all in one services, but with these I like to keep work and social life separate.Twitter is another story. I just can't engage with it at all.

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Ken Sheppardson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:40:00 -0000

Chieze: I totally agree there's a push towards interoperability, but I don't think anybody could say Facebooks anywhere near the front on that. Facebooks approach sorta seems like "We're willing to be open, as long as we're in control." with the expectation they're the hub/portal/home page for the social web.