Social Network Overload
Does anyone else who uses multiple tools to keep in touch with friends suffer from “information overload” - whether it’s MSN, AOL, Pownce, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Windows Live Spaces, Last.FM, Flixster, Bebo, FriendsReunited, or the many other social tools…
It’s like the early days of IM (before “mutli-service” clients appeared like Trillian or Pidgin) when it was normal to have several clients running to talk to various different people…
What we really need is a “Meta-Social-Network” - which can collate information from many social networks, and combine all your friends into one seemless place, so for example a single entry appears “status update” on Facebook, a post on Twitter and Pownce, a personal message on MSN Messenger, etc…
Won’t happen.
But if it appears I’m ignoring you on one network, I’ve probably just not had time to check it recently - if you really want to talk to me, the best ways are old-fashioned email, or IM.
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Agree with you 100% on this. In fact I’m sure I’ve ranted about it before.
BTW. I tagged you!
You really aren’t alone in feeling this - I think Pownce might be the service that has tipped me over the edge.
I sent this to you, but thought I’d mentione here, also:
On ‘meta-social network’: if you read SF, check the Edenists in Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy. (And to add: technology is the manifestation of human psychology. It’s never been a matter of technical possibility, but psychological allowance.)