Unification
I am all about diversity but sometimes unification can be great.
I got a request this morning to join Hi5, it is the same thing as Friendster, Myspace, Orkut, all of which I am a member of. Yet, different groups of my friends belong to all of them. For example my Mexican and Caribbean friends belong to Hi5, my hipster friends belong to Myspace, the Brazilians have taken over Orkut and Friendster seems to be slowly dying as people seem to lose interest. These pages are great in that I can find out what is going on in town tonight, or who is having a party, or email a large group of people at once. However, they suck in that I have to check four or five sites to keep up, they suck in that people edit their profiles so I am forced to listen to crappy music, people looking to fornicate are constantly sending unwanted solicitations. The pros could totally outweigh the cons if somehow I could log into one page and all my contacts were listed in one place.
Same goes for ICQ, mIRC, AIM, Y!, and MSN chat services. I’ve used Trillian in the past and it kept crashing but I may give it another chance. Trillian is one program that signs you on to all of the above chat programs. This way I can talk to my German friends who use ICQ, my Mexican friends who use MSN, my Gringo friends who use AIM and the people-who-rarely-sign-on-but-if-they-do use Y!.
Can’t we all get along and choose one chat program and one “social networking” page?
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Damn those non-scrolling pattern background havin’, yellow text usin’, “thanks for the addy”, side scroll forcin’, windows media embeddin’ myspace pages.
But I think you are onto something. A social network aggregator.
Comment on August 22, 2005 09:54 amTry Gaim at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ . Works on just about everything out there, and it’s rock solid stable… well, at least in Linux. I believe it’s also pretty reliable in Windows.
Comment on August 22, 2005 05:24 pmYeah, all my Mexican friends are on Hi5 too now. It’s weird how that happens. I don’t like how it automatically sends emails out to everyone in your address book.
Comment on August 23, 2005 04:07 amOh, you forgot the Facebook for the college crowd. I wasn’t able to get into that one since most of the students on there are pretty young and I’m getting old…
Comment on August 23, 2005 06:16 amjust to add to the confusion i like tribe
Comment on August 24, 2005 03:48 pm