tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post5749053752355036149..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Facebook v Blogger, encoreCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-3245304410750687912010-03-01T09:39:56.609-05:002010-03-01T09:39:56.609-05:00MySpace is not yet dead, though few academics use ...MySpace is not yet dead, though few academics use it, and Academia.edu is still in business even though only academics use it. How long will Facebook last? <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/facebook-heads-towards-profit-1788430.html" rel="nofollow">It still isn't profitable and Microsoft have already acquired a share</a>. I wouldn't give up on the older media just yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-71828728512400455902010-02-28T17:40:19.349-05:002010-02-28T17:40:19.349-05:00I'm not sure I agree -- about FB's exclusi...I'm not sure I agree -- about FB's exclusive grasp on our social-networking lives, or about the larger point.<br /><br />Occasionally I lament having gotten on Twitter, since it is an addition, not a replacement for something else. And don't get me started on Buzz.<br /><br />I use them according to the length of what I wish to say, and sometimes the shorter version gestures toward the longer.meghttp://xom.blogs.com/xoomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-18629622016606342552010-02-28T11:45:00.168-05:002010-02-28T11:45:00.168-05:00Uh...where am I? I subscribed to a news feed calle...Uh...where am I? I subscribed to a news feed called ICurrent, recommended by a PCWorld online columnist. <br /><br />Today it took me to this "blogger.com", where I am leaving my comments to be sown to the winds...It's much like throwing a bottled message into the sea - if such bottled messages were capable of cloning, mutating and endlessly replicating. Keeping track of its progression is quite impossible, as is anticipating its consequences.<br /><br />As a creator of several Facebook groups, I see the technology of transmission becoming ever more powerful, while that of tracking and control progressively weakens. <br /><br />FB does not advise me, as administrator, that a new member has joined my group, that a new member has posted a new discussion topic, that such a member has deleted the topic, or that they have left the group.<br /><br />If somewhere there exists a comprehensive history of what has been posted to the FB groups I "administer", I don't know where it exists nor how I can access it. And so there may be snapshots of text, images, audio posted on "my" group pages that I have never seen, and know nothing of - yet they are nominally my responsibility...<br /><br />Messages posted on the walls of other FB groups disappear without warning, explanation, or trace singly and in groups. FB groups exist for which no administrator contact address is posted. And after many months of use, it remains a mystery to me what happens to a FB group if the sole administrator loses his or her FB account (yes, I've asked Facebook "staff", they appear to be as ignorant as everyone else - just less honest about it).<br /><br />My big question for this new world of uncontrollable and untraceable propagation of commentary is this - how can one protect oneself from being misquoted, misrepresented, even impersonated?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02160563611456552081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-34576866923354592602010-02-28T10:02:01.320-05:002010-02-28T10:02:01.320-05:00I think it's down to purpose. Blogging gave me...I think it's down to purpose. Blogging gave me a community of friends, but that community also changed the way I participated in blogging. Initially, I was reading a lot of more heavy-hitting blogs, like Crooked Timber, TPM, and Bitch, PhD -- and commenting on them. As I met more and more of the people whose blogs I read, I started to devote more of my reading time to "people I know", because I was interested in the people as much as what they had to say; this is especially true for those people who have become close RL friends.<br /><br />Some of them had Live Journals, and some of us put together a writing group on LJ. So I got a LJ, and was able to write and lock down a lot of stuff I couldn't on blogger (that's changed now, but I sort of like having my more public self in one place and my more private self in another). So even though I still blog publicly in one place, I've spent way more time whinging at the other!<br /><br />Also, is LJ social networking or blogging? <br /><br />Facebook, as you say, is becoming more of a hybrid. I appreciate your linking ot my last post, because I use facebook as my RL public internet face -- students and colleagues can find me there, and I don't want my students to know about ADM. On the other hand, I do want them to see a bit about me and my family, and the interactions between colleagues (and the OMG factor when they realize that I know a lot of people who come up in their reading). <br /><br />I am really glad you have posted about this, though. It has made me re-think how I interact with people on the internet, and that I *have* allowed some of what I see as semi-professional writing to fall by the wayside in favor of the quick 'how are my friends doing' fixes. And my writing at Blogenspiel is something that does help keep my head in the academic game, so I do need to be reminded of its importance now and then.<br /><br />Any lack of coherence in this comment is brought to you by loud neighbors and lack of caffeine :-)Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-62352766228797536122010-02-28T09:19:30.269-05:002010-02-28T09:19:30.269-05:00i've thought about this too, having basically ...i've thought about this too, having basically abandoned my old blog in favor of FB. Since I communicate with students that way, I even have to remind myself to go to the class blog to post ideas and assignments. I met a couple of lovely friends blogging (including one in Norway whom I'll meet this summer), and endured some trolls and porn sites. FB is altogether different. The Notes section doesn't compare with the posting routine of a blog. Yet the status line is a marvelous little training ground for the succinct and the ambiguous. <br /><br />However, I think I am the quintessential fan to prove your point: the way I found you was through John Walter (a blogging friend) and Tiny Shriner, which was a FB phenom, for me anyway. YAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01066379458312876698noreply@blogger.com