Social media fragmentation zen slap: from Twitter, to Facebook, to FriendFeed, to Blog, and back to Twitter
A zen slap is “a moment of unexpected enlightenment when something becomes blindingly and undeniably obvious to you. It often brings a feeling of elation, relief, and discovery, even as you laugh at yourself for missing the obviousness all along.”
Well, I just had a social media zen slap. Earlier this morning, I tweeted a question:
I didn’t get any response via my followers. But then later in the day I checked Facebook and saw that there was an answer in my Friendfeed widget:
Then I went back to FriendFeed to comment back on Brandon Titus’s comment. I subscribed to his feed while I was on.
Google please free my data!
Now I’m writing this post. And then I’ll tweet it back out after I’m done. So the cycle is:
Twitter to Facebook to FriendFeed to My Elliott Ng blog, and then back to Twitter.
Corvida earlier exclaimed, @Social Aggregators GIVE ME MY COMMENTS! and I concur. I would add another demand:
@Social Aggregators GIVE ME MY CONVERSATIONS!
But not sure how these conversations can be portable and deduplicated. I don’t want all my Tweets to be fed into Twitter by a FriendFeed bot. And I certainly don’t want to consume all my FriendFeed activity via an RSS feed in my Google Reader! Argggh!
Hope this helps you with a Zen Slap realization of where we are going, the problems and the opportunities!
Image courtesy of japanart.wordpress.com
March 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Amen! What you want *is* going to happen with broader acceptance of OAuth for sharing that data, OpenID for knowing who’s who and having a place to store the data, and foaf etc. And, even better than Social Aggregators giving your conversations, it may be possible for you to control them from the start.
We’re working on that sort of thing at http://unripped.org (mission and description of our work) and unripped.com (openid provider with portable features coming soon). The file sharing and OpenID delegation pieces are there and working, and we have lots of work to get up there in the next few weeks.
ak