Archive for June, 2008

Yes, it’s been that complicated, unless you’ve followed a similar path, many of you probably have, some of you still have no clue….

I fought it, Web 2.0, but specifically Twitter, the only Web 2.0 service that I knew of at the time.  I thought SMS was a stupid medium for conversation (okay really it was that I could not type fast, plus I did not want to dish out the extra cost) and 140 characters, what the hell?  I was content with Facebook, thought MySpace was for high school kids, and LinkedIn was for corporate wannabes.

But that all changed, I am not sure what made me do it, I think it might have had something to do with the ability to track March Madness via IM and the hope of finding other sports fanatics who would be watching the games and keeping me updated.  Yes there was the Internet, but I wanted to work off my new Blackberry, it has a browser but it’s not ideal solution.  I wanted the scores and the analysis real time, provided by fans not some corporate ticker!

I fell in love, head over heels, and as is usually the case, realized later that I had made a mistake.  Twitter went down, a lot, but I was okay with that, I am the patient type.  I waited.  Then I found out that my love, Twitter, was holding back, not sharing, not telling me what was wrong.  Disappointed I followed rumors of something new called FriendFeed as a Twitter replacement; I decided to try it out.  It was not Twitter, it did not feel right.  Was I disappointed? Of course, but I decided to stay, just to explore, Twitter was down anyway.

Slowly, I started to appreciate FriendFeed, the “conversation” was alive, it was quick, topical and generally of better quality than my “tracking.”  I got more and more involved with FriendFeed but I still held hope of getting Twitter back.  There was a blog, a communication, an acknowledgement of the problems facing Twitter, and the steps to the solution, to make things better, Twitter was coming back.  I was so excited….

Then I lost IM, it was like a part of my brain just shut off, information just stopped.  The instant reply the constant ping, gone and no idea of when it will return.  Sometimes, some of the messages would randomly make it to my GoogleTalk, it did not me feel better, it annoyed me.  I could not reply, it was an one way conversation and that never feels good.  So I made up my mind, it was time for a break up.  Yeah I would still be around Twitter it’s hard not to be when you have so much put into it, but I would embrace FriendFeed.

I would tell you that FriendFeed is all that I need, but I would be lying to you, part of me is still waiting for tracking, for IM, for that fling that I’ve left behind.