*sighs*
People keep asking me to join social networking sites, or sites that I deem to be social networking sites. I had a play with Vox, and it seemed pleasant enough but more than I really wanted; MySpace looks like a teenager’s wet dream to me – it’s ugly as sin, impossible to navigate nicely and doesn’t actually work on any browser I’ve tried (I guess I could hook up the RiscPC and try WebsterXL or Browse; they’re the only ones I’ve got left). And last week Naomi at work asked me to join Facebook.
Somehow I just don’t see the point. I don’t really want all that stuff, I dunno whether it’s coming from the Acorn school of computing where you use small applications that are well designed to perform a specific task (I’ve got Flickr for photos and LJ for Journalling, and that’s me happy), as opposed to using one monolithic application which isn’t terribly good at anything, but does it all.
I get quite enough social networking out of LJ without having all the crap that seems to accompany MySpace/Facebook/All these other things. I’m sure I’m less visible, but I’m quite happy that way.
I’d think that I was getting stuck in a rut – but quite honestly I never did really do joining in. I’ve never been one for following fashion, and it seems to me that’s what most of this is.
