{"id":900,"date":"2011-12-12T20:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=900"},"modified":"2011-12-12T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:39:48","slug":"reflections-on-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2011\/12\/reflections-on-social-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on social networking"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the rise of Google+<\/a> as my preferred social network, I’ve had some opportunity to reflect on how my online interactions with my friends have changed.<\/p>\n

Way back when I was an Internet geekling, I used email and ICQ (remember them? Uh-oh<\/a>!) I ran a website, but that was mostly a playground for some very… Immature\u00c2\u00a0web\u00c2\u00a0design\u00c2\u00a0experimentation\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0also\u00c2\u00a0teen\u00c2\u00a0angst.<\/p>\n

Eventually the website became this blog, and though I moved from ICQ to MSN, I stopped using chat a whole lot. I got on to LiveJournal, and that was a\u00c2\u00a0great\u00c2\u00a0way to stay in touch with friends. Most of my circle were on LJ, whether in Australia, or older school friends that I wanted to stay up to date with.<\/p>\n

Then Facebook came. Some people will talk about MySpace, Friendster or Twitter, but Facebook got the formula right for me. LJ is largely a ghost town because the long form\u00c2\u00a0that\u00c2\u00a0LJ encourages is comparatively a lot more work. Add to that a virtually nonexistent mobile platform and you’ve got a recipe for untended journals and silent Friend pages.<\/p>\n

I’ll admit my own guilt. I can’t remember the last time I wrote an LJ post. I was addicted to Facebook, checking it constantly. That’s mostly because FB was very vibrant. Everybody was on it, so conversations were always in progress, and it made communication so effortless.<\/p>\n

But in the last year, I’ve lost the free time at work that helped sustain my addiction. Facebook’s repeatedly inept handling of privacy issues<\/a> has made me reluctant to share very much through the site as well. As a result, I’ve more than halved my “Friends” list, and spend no more than a couple minutes a week glancing over it.<\/p>\n

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