Pros for me with facebook:
- First, I am "posting" this instead of commenting because if you have a reader and haven't subscribed to the "comment feed" you would not see this. Having a disjunct between posts and comments forces the commenter to pay special attention (e.g. my mom still doesn't know that I commented that I drew a portrait of her). As an artist wannabe I can tell you that the most short comment gives me such energy to keep going... and despite the problems with that... it's true... Interaction is what it's about... otherwise why would anybody try? Squares are important to me, now, Robert, thank you :) Maybe Mark Polansky, zero comments, is crap??? Maybe giving the drawing to Mark is stupid??? Maybe spending Spoonbill overhead on the framer down the road is ignorant??? Maybe swine flu is more important? I don't know!
- With facebook, I think most people feel at home and that entering "kavetter.blogspot.com" is something that I own... like stepping into somebody else's house, however inviting I try to make it.
- I have more pros, but arms hurting... go to cons
- You have to have a stupid fbook account to do anything. For instance, does Diane have to have a facebook account to see my new posts??? Does Anonymous have to join???
- A million people who you may or may not want to talk to find you. I am not "Highschool freaking Vetter" anymore
- You have to reject people as friends
- Your msg gets into somebody's wall and goes down the tube because that friend has a hundred bazillion friends and is so inundated with walling that they go awol
- The blog has a continuity and is more personal... or private... hard to explain
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Another FB Con- You can't be "Anonymous", and still have the Blogmaster know your identity.
I can understand if you don't do FB. I still read my Google Reader regularly. I also recently added a feed from your comments. Sorry I don't comment more. However I still think FB is great. I've been keeping up with people I haven't seen in years. BTW I sent Kim a friend request.
I know this sounds sick, but I re-read my own posts too. I also use it as a history to find out when/where we were. In other words, it's a journal.
saw this today and thought about this conversation... looks like an interesting project that does for commenting what Wave will do with... well... everything.
anyways, looks like it is $12 a year...
http://js-kit.com/
FG
Hmmmm. Hey, wanna make a wave server in the Edge lab next year? I'm real excited about it.
I'm excited too... hopefully some open source implementations of the server/protocol start popping up. presumably the apache foundation would be one of the first to release something...
just another month until the developer preview!
I´ve been reading about the wave protocol. You know this, probably, but it´s kinda built on jabber... and some theoretical simultaneous edit collaboration delaboration mustification station relation... confuscation elation implementation.
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