Just reactivated my Facebook profile, which I “deactivated” in September. Everything’s still there — where it’ll be forever: all of our moments and memories and Scrabulous scores owned by Facebook ’till long after we’re gone.
It still doesn’t suit me but it’s impractical and countersocial not to be on Facebook. I kept wondering if people were wondering.
We’ll see how it goes. The business of deciding whether to friend-or-not-to-friend seems a little more morally loaded and stressful than it needs to be. I can never tell if someone’s wondering why I haven’t friended them or if they’re one of those people who prefers to keep their friend list as perfectly pruned as a Japanese garden.
Something between the guardedness of Facebook and the promiscuity of MySpace would be perfect. Like Twitter. I learned a lot there in the past few weeks. Before I got on that I had no idea how to send those short Facebooky messages.
Now, after bringing my blogging a little more down to earth and started to enjoy using the Twitter, I have an urge to take the conversation further, or wider, with a little more sustenance. I wanted to do more with FriendFeed but nobody’s on there (only the core social media mavens). Facebook groups seems to be where the conversation’s at – or at least where the party’s at.
As an aside, FriendFeed seems like the wrong name for FriendFeed. Even FeedFriend would be more appropriate. FriendFeed is more about the “media” half of social media. I mean, it’s social as anything but the friendly-friend stuff happens more on Facebook; FriendFeed has been embraced more by an emerging class of social media professionals. The pictures and videos shared on Facebook are of people having fun or otherwise just doing their thing. The pictures and videos shared on FriendFeed are like, “I’m an amateur photographer, check out my Flickr stream,” or “Here’s a video of the presentation I gave on how companies should be using social media.”
Anyways, I look forward to staying in touch with my friends’ great normal lives on the Facebook, and I welcome anyone to come stay in touch with whatever exactly it is that I do.
