Web 2.0 has taken off and we are constantly inundated with new services and new products to try, to help us with being able to better network on the internet.
My problem with all the different services is that everyone uses something different and it started a long time ago when instant messaging programs came out. We’ve gotten to the point where I now have to have FIVE different chat programs open so that I can keep track of my friends and most of the time, all of the ones that I really want to also have all FIVE programs. But we can’t just pick one. No.
That would leave someone else out.
I realize that there are programs like Trillian but they don’t like the Mac. And I realize that Meebo is out there. But I want a program that RUNS on my computer and not in a browser window.
::sigh::
Then came Firefox and I liked that better than Internet Explorer. Thunderbird replaced my Outlook. The Mac came along and while I kept Firefox, I now use the Mac Mail App.
I’ve just gotten used to Twitter and now there is Plurk and Kwippy. I have accounts at all of them but Twitter is what I use most because that’s what I remember to sign into.
But I panic because I have other friends that have moved to other services and how on earth will I keep up with them?
Now all the hubbub is out about Flock. Yet another program that I have to figure out how to use to see if it really is the next best thing since sliced bread as everyone is claiming and frankly?
I don’t have time.
But I’ll do it anyway.
Just like I downloaded Windows Live Writer today to post from to see what it could do because I liked the idea of being able to compose blog posts while offline and not have to copy and paste it into the window later… OR be almost done with a blog post and losing it all because I’m connected to the internet.
I could probably be a big baby and just say if you want to send me a calendar invite, do so to my Google calendar.
If you want to chat with me, you can reach me on Yahoo Messenger.
I’m twittering and nothing else.
But I won’t. I’m too afraid that I’ll miss something or someone.
But boy… don’t you wish we could all get on the same page?
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You can try Adium for the Mac. It’s like Pidgin for Windows and has worked well for me. And the little green duck thing is cute.
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Yeah.
I basically didn’t understand anything you just said.
It was all blah blah blah Mac Mail App blah blah blah.
May I please pay you to troubleshoot my freakin’ Mac Mail App which REFUSES to remember the password in the keychain???
I have typed the password NO LESS THAN 100 times in the last two days.
*RIPPING MY HAIR OUT*
I feel the same way. I don’t want yet another service to keep in touch with people; I have almost too many already: Twitter for microblogging & digerati networking, LiveJournal for lifeblogging w/ family and college friends, Facebook for keeping in touch with old and new friends, and LinkedIn for business contacts.
I keep getting people finding me on Plaxo, and that’s nice, I guess. I have a couple of feeds set up to filter through there so it’s not a totally dead account. But I just don’t feel like I need another social networking environment.
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Yep. Tried Plurk for a couple of weeks but couldn’t get into it. Now here I am roped into Kwip. I tossed around the idea of Flock vs. Firefox, but went with Firefox. I think if I had Twitter, etc. in my sidebar all day at Flock, I’d get nothing done. Not that I get anything done in a timely fashion anyhow. Sigh…
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