Settling Sucks
I am tired of having to settle. Yet I have to. I have to settle with what is popular. I know that sounds lame, like I am in high school and I have to do what it takes to hang out with the jocks (never did figure that out, but that is a whole other post). Cereal is a good example, and one I have written about before. When my wife and I were in Europe we delighted in chocolate cereal. Just to clarify that is NOT chocolate flavored cereal, but cereal with massive chocolaty chunks. Now in the United States we don’t have this morning goodness, we have cheap substitutes. Does this mean that I don’t eat cereal for breakfast almost ever morning? No, I settle.
Settling in the geeky techno-world is a big pet peeve of mine. Why do I have to settle for a service like Twitter, that goes down and removes key features just to stay afloat? Because everyone uses it. Yes, there are many better services out there, but you got to go with what the masses use, that is the curse of the social network. Facebook is another service I have to settle with. I have to settle with a clunky interface and a bombardment of spam (both email and on the site). I am sorry as much as I do find it vaguely interesting that you are “Addicted to Latin American Midget Snowboarding”. I am not interested in being a part of that group. I, myself am even part of the problem. I joined the “Addicted to Heroes” group/application more than a year ago and would love to take it off. But I don’t know how. I’ve looked and tried. So I am eternally “Addicted to Heroes”. I have a theory that soon someone will come along and eat these lame services up. It appears that FriendFeed is already on the heels of Twitter. I am just waiting for the cool new social network that gets it right to replace Facebook, and no it is not MySpace (I won’t even go there).
Until then, I guess I will settle.
Posted in Technology
July 1st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Here’s what’s cool about Twitter: no ads. They survive on venture capitalism alone…selling an idea with no real “product” is GENIUS. But, I heard Amazon just invested, so we’ll see where it goes.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
“Settle” for Facebook? But Facebook is clean, tidy, highly customizable, as spare or cluttered as you want it to be. (Click “edit” in the left-hand Applications list and then “remove” that Heroes crap.)
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Spoon, you are missing the point. It is not as customizable as you or the folks at Facebook want me to think, sure I can add or delete anything I want off my page (thanks for the Heroes removal tip), but I am still forced to filter everyone else’s crap and I have no control over this. I encourage you to use your imagination and come with me to a place where we can network socially without actually having to talk in a place that both looks good and just works.