I am trying to figure out the "sweet spot" for all of the various social media applicaitons. Obviously Facebook has taken the Internet by storm as has Twitter. I am an avid Google / Gmail user, so I am interested in using Google's Buzz, but I'm struggling with the value-add. The only additional "value-add" of Linked-In is the ability to separate personal from work related... Now, if I can just seemlessly integrate them all, I would be happy. I'm also trying to figure out if people are really getting tweets sent to their phones, or if they are generally logging into the site to view updates.
It seems there are a few categories that can used to group these is:
- Blogs: Interactive method to keep an online journal of thoughts and look for feedback.
- Wiki: More of a dialog / lecture, that I think of being used to convey information, but not necessarily look for or receive feedback.
- News: Pushed by things such as RSS or Google Reader, or pulled by an individual to consume, but not necessarily interact with the source of information
- Social broadcasting: A method to simply provide a statement of what are recent activities, with the potential of interaction (i.e., Linked In and Facebook)
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I don't use twitter very much because my work phone is fairly locked down and I don't pay for text messages in my plan. I log in to twitter once or twice a month. I hide all applications in Facebook, but like various news sources and topics of interest there. In Facebook I get only real updates from Friends and news items, so it's essentially my daily newspaper.
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