Saturday, February 13, 2010

In my constant quest to reach everyone on every social network and save my Sanity

Okay I have 2 blogs (My running blog & My random thoughts), A Twitter account, 2 Facebook Accounts (One personal & one professional), a Google Buzz Account, Picasa Photo Albums, Snapfish photo albums and a You Tube Account. Are you with me so far? I'm always fascinated that people actually want to read about the blister on my toes after a 18 mile run, comment on my new profile picture, hear about my water logged cell phone, and watch me go on a roller coasters.
All this technology gives me a headache sometimes. For some reason I love it. It would be great if everyone just agreed to do this on one website. May be I should just pick one site and stick with it. Then I run into my issues, Twitter is limited to 140 charters, not everyone is on Facebook, I'm sure athletes don't want to here about my day at the cubs game and I'm sure some people don't want to know about my upcoming race in two weeks. Of course there are people (mostly my friends I think) are interested about everything I do. On top of that I don't  want to post in three different places about the same thing some times. AHHHHHH.
So this is what is going on...

  • Google Buzz will pick up my twitter feeds, blogs, picasa, & you tube videos. Not Facebook. The downside is anything I post on Google Buzz won't update anything else.
  • I have my Twitter updates feed into Facebook.
  • I have twitterfeed.com picking up my blogs and sending them to my twitter account as links and Facebook as posts. Here is the issue with this setup. Facebook will receive both updates twice. Once from Twitter feed and Once from Twitter.  I don't have Facebook feed into Twitter because I'm afarid everything will just keep reposting in one big loop bringing down the Internet. 
Again,  I don't know how much longer I can handle all this.  We as a online-worldwide-social media community need to pick one fricken place to do all this. I think Facebook does a okay job, but some of you are stubbern to move away from MySpace. 
Hey, Egg heads at Google ... READ THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH. This will help you win the online social media war. Google Buzz or Google Wave (Another Social online dominance attempt) needs to pick up from other websites and updates those website at the same time. I post something on Facebook it should show up on Buzz. If I post on Buzz I should have the ability to post in any place I want. Google If you make a one stop shop to do all this then you're going to win especially with geeks and nerds like myself. Bloggers, Vloggers and just general webheads, am I right? Hey Google...You can also just buy out Facebook like you did YouTube that might work too. 

1 comment:

dpaton said...

Totally agree. Buzz can be the new central social networking tool of world domination doopm, but only if it works right!