Nicisms

How quiet is too quiet?

I have recently been chastised at every turn for “falling off the radar” so to speak. By “the radar” most people are referring to that of the social media world; blogs, twitter, the book of face and many others.

But here’s my question, How quiet is too quiet? I don’t feel I’ve dropped of the radar too dramatically. I completely agree that I am blogging less but I think that’s because my paradigms are shifting a bit.

I no longer believe that the web is the best place to throw down your thoughts and hope for some response. I no longer believe that my blogs are the best way for me to spend my time online. I have a job that pushes me to my limits almost every day and fulfills my need to constantly be innovating, creating and developing within a new and uncharted territory. So what do I need blogs for?

Don’t get my wrong, I love my blogs and they are a great outlet for me to do precisely what I am doing right now, a dump of mental thoughts (moughts?) running around my head that help to keep my very few readers up to date with the direction of my thinking and life. That’s it.

SA Rocks serves an entirely different purpose so that’s not really worth discussing in the same context.

Regarding Twitter, the book of face, the space of my, linked in, last fm and any (every) other social network I belong to, I am fast feeling that they are all relatively useless to me. I don’t understand the value of Facebook. Linkedin is a network worth keeping alive, but just barely and the others were great for me when I wanted to keep abreast of the latest tech out there. But right now, I am in a different paradigm that has very little to do with the web and how social it can be right now.

So I think I am being the correct amount of quiet up in here.

One man controls over 250 million people’s profiles world wide. That scares me.

Facebook is actually becoming ridiculous with notification settings. I have changed my settings to OFF probably 4 times in the last 2 months. Today I started receiving notifications from Facebook in my email inbox.

Let me explain this to someone, anyone, as explicitly as I can. I DO NOT WANT FACEBOOK NOTIFICATIONS IN MY INBOX. EVER. EVER. EVER.

Below are two screenshots, the first is what Facebook changed my notification settings to and the next is afterwards, my settings. Click the images to see fullscreen (and take note of the date).

Please keep in mind that I had turned off ALL of the above notifications with one exception: Birthday notifications. Above, numerous options have been changed without my consent.

Anyone ever received one of these?

Think at the point of receiving the error I was posting a link to WhyVOTE? to a group. Oh well.

It had to happen. If you are going to open up Facebook (FB) to third party applications you have to expect that someone will come along and change things for those who want change.

I hate MySpace because it’s so unbelievably kitch and cheesy. Now FB can be those things too. Have a look at my profile.

I read about the application that allows you to do this on ReadWriteWeb. I am all for democracy and choice and blah blah blah, but I honestly think this is horrid.

What are your thoughts?

The application is put out by PageRage and will definitely help you take one step closer to a MySpace feel to your FB. I’m not convinced about the necessity for this sort of thing.

*Note: You need to install the application to see my profile on Facebook and to see anyone else who has an altered profile. I cannot be held liable if your friends leave you and no one writes on your wall subsequent to adding this application to your Facebook.