{"id":689,"date":"2011-01-18T23:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teebiss.com\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2011-01-18T23:28:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T06:28:48","slug":"twitter-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teebiss.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/twitter-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Twitter account is for following tech industry personalities.  My Facebook account is all people that I know in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter was a good source of information for awhile.  Now, in my opinion, it&#8217;s the best source of MISinformation&#8211;it&#8217;s worse than Wikipedia.  Crowd sourcing has failed.  Facebook was fun when it was new.  Now I feel like I&#8217;ve lost control in the Facebook world.  I&#8217;m afraid Facebook knows a bit too much about me&#8211;and I don&#8217;t like that.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve found that the people on Twitter that I follow tweet less and less about tech and more about their own lives, political thoughts, and self promotion.  Sorry, but I really don&#8217;t care what insert-tech-personality&#8217;s-name-here had for breakfast or why\/why not federal law trumps state law and other such nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>My Facebook is filled with people that I don&#8217;t really know or don&#8217;t really like.  In some cases there are people on my friends list that I don&#8217;t remember at all.  I have ignored some friends requests from people&#8211;and then when I see them in person they ask &#8220;Hey, did you get my friend request on Facebook?&#8221;&#8211;awkward.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook was fun to play catch-up with all the people from my past jobs, school, phases of my life, etc.  Facebook was the number one reason why I didn&#8217;t go to my class reunion&#8211;I already knew what all my old classmates looked like and what they have been doing for the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like these two social networking tools have run their course.  As time goes by, I find myself caring less and less about Twitter and Facebook.  I haven&#8217;t looked at Twitter in weeks, and Facebook in 3 days.  Noise.  That&#8217;s all it is.  And I have plenty of that in my life, anyway.  So much of what I&#8217;m reading on Twitter and Facebook is just crap I don&#8217;t care about.  Sadly, from *people* I don&#8217;t care about.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, back where I started.  Posting on my blog.  Where *I* control the content.  Where my *real* friends and family can read what I have to say and leave their feedback and have a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Twitter account is for following tech industry personalities. My Facebook account is all people that I know in real life. Twitter was a good source of information for awhile. Now, in my opinion, it&#8217;s the best source of MISinformation&#8211;it&#8217;s worse than Wikipedia. Crowd sourcing has failed. Facebook was fun when it was new. 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