Yesterday I would have written that facebook - for all it’s fun games lacks something for me. But now that I have discovered the ability to compile podcasts and add blog feedsin (though it is still buggy and not right) my thoughts are more favorable.
I have also been to linked in which seves it’s different purpose but doesn’t match as well with my life. At least not yet. It is more of a business card exchange forum.
I have barely perused myspace - there is a basic perception amongst my friends that myspace is for dating while facebook is for the rest of us.
The irony is that when I was first aware of all of this - my efforts to get friends involved turned on deaf ears - I just had to wait. Now I am a little behind - though not really. Of course we have our own product - but we are really about making networks for others and licenses than creating a compelling network for people to use. So wrapping my head around facebook has been an important education given that I am now working with Marc as a project manager. Clients get used to the many features they see and I need to know what they are.
On that track circumstances kicked my back into a part time work mode - which has been the silver lining to our recent cloud. I am not only working for Marc I am also working for another friend on a small sales tool web application. It’s been great and I am very happy to project manage again. It turns out I am not that behind - the basics of managing never change.
But facebookdoes lack the very cool tie in with Flickr that allows me to show off my kids art on the side and facebook lacks the blog voice that is such an interesting way to kind of get to know people. I think reading someone is a particular knowledge of that person - not to be confused with acoustic knowledge. Still I really enjoy reading the mental wanderings of my kindred digital souls.