Too much media

[mizarchivist]

OK. I think I'm not eloquent enough to really give this due thought, the short version of the ranty thing is: too much social media.

Yeah, G+ is Not Facebook, but I'm not convinced.
FB will be hard to drop entirely given my work and family connections that will likely never go away/jump ship.
And LJ is still my go-to for real content.

Comments

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, definitely.

I'm just glad the people I'm avoiding on Facebook are very unlikely to ever grasp G+.

And one stream to rule them all

[drwex]

We just need to unify everything. Yeah, that's the ticket...

Re: And one stream to rule them all

[caulay.livejournal.com]

That trick never works.

[gothtique.livejournal.com]

Yes... what you said!
I don't think we are alone.

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

There is too much social media. But it's now the 21st century, and the enabling technologies are so cheap that social media will never go away. 20 years ago, before home computing took off, we already had so many ways to communicate that no one used all of them (telephone, postal mail, fax, teletype, multiple bands of radio, and email), although I personally used most of them.
My guess is that in the immediate future we'll have to choose (based on keeping up with the Joneses maintaining social lives) the right combination of social media to fill our personal niches. I suspect mine will be on the "less" end of the divide, while others will be on the "more" end.