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By: marios

marios — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:46:34 +0000

I keep my Facebook account because I know enough people with one — though, I keep my photos on Flickr, bookmarks on Del.icio.us, and delegate most of my outside activity to FriendFeed so that I can leave Facebook if I want to.

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By: tigerlil

tigerlil — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:50:34 +0000

yep, you certainly can. it’s very fun..except for a few glitches. I’ve gotten ridiculously good, but still have a low ranking because I have a really bad habit of running out of time on the timed games! usually when I’m almost doubling my opponents score…very silly in fact. I’m trying to overcome this tendency ; ) and up my ranking…which means I should be playing right now (or working on my web contract–hmmm?)

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:45:45 +0000

So one can just play Scrabulous on Scrabulous.com? I should check that out. It’s been a long time since I played Scrabble, online or off.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:44:59 +0000

Yeah it’s tricky, I think if you’re getting good use with facebook by all means stick with it, but I find I only have time / mental capacity to deal with maybe 3 or 4 of these social websites at any one time. Right now it’s FriendFeed, Twitter, and I suppose this blog and everyone else’s.

By: tigerlil

tigerlil — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:24:45 +0000

I didn't like trying to clean it all out very well so I wrote them an email requesting a full delete. hope I'm not endangering my privacy with all the info I didn't delete myself....

so I feel lighter now too except for that last bit of worry. I dumped mySpace awhile back, too. I'm less likely to sign up to anything else.

By: tigerlil

tigerlil — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:09:04 +0000

oh and ps…Scrabulous is not fun at all on facebook…it’s much slower and a worse interface than just going and playing on the site. ridiculously so in fact. I’ll be happy to quit facebook and all those annoying apps. soon everyone will realize it’s as dumb as mySpace

By: tigerlil

tigerlil — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:06:57 +0000

I only joined facebook recently - I was prompted by Scrabulous (http://scrabulous.com) which is horribly addictive and said it would be a "whole lot more fun " if I joined Facebook which I had been considering cause Missy was having so much fun on there. god I hate it though...spent all this time setting up a profile etc (ETC) and wasted a ridiculous amount of time to get almost nothing interesting in return. The one app I really like is the Flcker which no one probably looks at anyway.

I may join you! although the pulling out sounds time consuming

By: Adam Hyman

Adam Hyman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Wow, I hope you don’t have facebook regret.… and that you’ll be unable to find your friends.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:32:30 +0000

Exactly. Data portability is more likely to get me to join a new service (and stay with it), because of the freedom it allots to move away.

I'm a fan of the UNIX way of doing things - having multiple apps that do a single thing work together. APIs and feeds allow that more than ever before - tools like FriendFeed could not exist without them.

Heck, Firefox and Thunderbird were created specifically because Mozilla was a big, bloated app that did a lot of things, but didn't do any of them really well.

If Facebook doesn't open up soon, they'll face the same fate when something like OpenSocial matures.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:17:48 +0000

Mike, that's exactly it. FriendFeed essentially replaces that "social stream" thingie, and then there's this blog and twitter if anybody wonders what I'm up to. "Modular" is a great way to put it, and also I'm liking services that keep the data on the portable side so I can move everything elsewhere if need be.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:01:02 +0000

P.S. — Deleted my MySpace account long ago, too.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:56:05 +0000

Interesting thought. They definitely should be enabling more communication than what they're currently doing.

I keep my Facebook account because I know enough people with one - though, I keep my photos on Flickr, bookmarks on Del.icio.us, and delegate most of my outside activity to FriendFeed so that I can leave Facebook if I want to.

By keeping everything modular, instead of piling it all into Facebook (as it supports replacing all of that), you can change things at will. It's unfortunate that all of my friends are trapped in Facebook, but I'm hoping OpenSocial changes things down the road.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:48:23 +0000

Sad but true, but I washed my hands of that experiment!

By: papa

papa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:57:17 +0000

You had a MySpace account?!?! That one made me laugh!

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:07:33 +0000

Gotta admit, I’m still addicted to FB.