Social Junk
by Volker Weber
There is a social equivalent to junk mail. It's quite easy to produce. You create accounts on all social services and then link them all together. You track your workout with Runkeeper, then you publish that to FourSquare, which in turns gets published to Facebook and Twitter, which feeds Buzz and Facebook, and then you link it all once more with FriendFeed and include that link in Facebook. Your friends can deal with that junk, right?
The problem is not that you like to use RunKeeper or FourSquare or Twitter or Facebook or Buzz. The problem is cross pollution.
Yes, I like Alex. In real life.
Comments
Fully agree Volker. This status tags like "XX has earned XXX on farmville" are a nightmare .... BTW didn´t realized that Alex is playing golf. Yeah, time´s running fast.
I've tried to turn off as much as possible - but I always miss something - like the "You recently became Mayor of ..." post I realized I spammed all my friends with the other day. I *like* to link them up if it is something like a picture or a truly interesting comment posted from that location - but 9 times out of 10 it is worthless stuff. Being responsible on social media networks is hard work.
Maybe it's time to include "sorry for crosspost :-)" into our status updates ;)
On Facebook I've blocked 146 applications entirely, and hidden around 350 from showing on my wall (hard to count in that little popup). Almost makes it useful ;-)
