A change of social networks
I’m now using SocialThing instead of FriendFeed, and using Pownce more than Twitter.
I posted that a few minutes ago on twitter but I wanted to expand a bit more on my reasons, 140 characters might be good for helping you get to the point that you’re doing something - but it’s not so great at giving you the freedom to talk about why you’re doing it.
I first signed up for Pownce a while back when Kevin Rose was talking about it sometime on Diggnation. Signed up. Thought it was great, but didn’t really use mainly due to a lack of friend currently using it, but partly due to the fact that I dislike the way AIR applications run on macs.
I ended up moving to FriendFeed since it let me follow peoples tweets when the twitter site was down, as well as read posts in other social networks. I have 2 problems with FriendFeed though.
- I find the user interface to be dirty.
- I really wish you could hide the comments for everyone but your friend.
I recently gave SocialThing another try and I like where it’s going. It doesn’t try to be a social network like FriendFeed, but instead it is just a site that seeks to help you cleanly read the content from social sites, as well as to post to them. It’s still young and in invite only mode - but it all looks very promising.
As for Pownce/Twitter - well like a few I’ve just started to get a little fed up with twitter. So I’ve been considering the options and I’ve decided that I’m going to be using Pownce as my primary social network from now on. Thanks to SocialThing I’ll still be replying to friend in twitter, but I don’t plan to post much there any more.
Like a lot of people I really wish there was a native OSX desktop client, instead of the AIR client - but for now I’ll just drop that on my Someday/Maybe list of software to write.