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What would you bin first from 2.0?

22 April, 2008 at 9:48 pm Leave a comment

Ben over at Noisy Decent Graphics has thrown out an all-users tag:

‘what social network web 2.0 type things would you drop first and why?’

I have to say that I’m with him on his number 1 – Twitter.  I tried twittering, but its just not right for me.  In fact I’ve already dumped it. 

The problem is that the texts I normally receive are requests for information like ‘what time is the meeting?’ which need replying to fairly quickly.  I just can’t ignore the constant beeping that an active life on Twitter generates as somewhere in and amongst will be a text that actually needs replying to.  But I can’t read every text/twitter as it comes in because I’m supposed to be, you know, concentrating at work.

But I’m NOT giving up without a fight:

Bloglines – I’m addicted.  I love the mix of work/fun/friends feeds I’ve got on it and its ease of use.  I’m also increasingly ‘clipping’ interesting blog posts rather than printing them out and storing them in my toolbox.

Flickr – not only a really useful photo storage/sharing tool but brilliant for sourcing (creative commons licensed of course) imagery for presentations.

WordPress – not because I love its usability (in fact its just got worse with a redesign), but because blogging (or quite often ranting in my case…) has connected me with so many interesting people.

Facebook – no, not for those ‘become a knight of the round table’ applications.  Lots of my Uni mates moved to London and this is a great way of keeping in touch with them between visits.

What about you?

Entry filed under: digital, social media. Tags: digital, social media, web 2.0.