But.

The bigger your pool of people you know/have met/have interacted with at some level beyond just following, the more helpful it is to use multiple platforms for interacting, looking at them not as platforms but as additional ways to communicate.

How far is it possible to use a platform for interaction without going all in with the community of the platform? To take your community onto facebook for example rather than joining the facebook community?

Not sure if that makes sense.

(And last summer I ustreamed a wedding (and tweeted) so that the grandmother and uncle could attend. And connie reece and others stopped by. I brought my community from online to the community I was running tech for.)

But.

The bigger your pool of people you know/have met/have interacted with at some level beyond just following, the more helpful it is to use multiple platforms for interacting, looking at them not as platforms but as additional ways to communicate.

How far is it possible to use a platform for interaction without going all in with the community of the platform? To take your community onto facebook for example rather than joining the facebook community?

Not sure if that makes sense.

(And last summer I ustreamed a wedding (and tweeted) so that the grandmother and uncle could attend. And connie reece and others stopped by. I brought my community from online to the community I was running tech for.)

But.

The bigger your pool of people you know/have met/have interacted with at some level beyond just following, the more helpful it is to use multiple platforms for interacting, looking at them not as platforms but as additional ways to communicate.

How far is it possible to use a platform for interaction without going all in with the community of the platform? To take your community onto facebook for example rather than joining the facebook community?

Not sure if that makes sense.

(And last summer I ustreamed a wedding (and tweeted) so that the grandmother and uncle could attend. And connie reece and others stopped by. I brought my community from online to the community I was running tech for.)

If you include discussion groups, email groups, and bulletin boards as “social media”, I’ve been participating since 1996. Lately, I’ve begun to expand to new forms like Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn but I’m losing connections with my older circle of web friends.

I’m finding that there is a limit to how much time I can spend “keeping up” with social networking and might just return to individual email messages. Or, less drastically, I might focus in on one network and not try to be on every system because I know a few people on that particular network.

It’s not a popular thought but I definitely think there are limits to how many “friends” you can have and still BE a friend. Facebook and MySpace have made the work “friend” become almost meaningless in that it is applied to complete strangers one might never even have contact with. That defeats the purpose of distinguishing ones friends from the general public, I think.

Of course, I’m constantly amazed at how much people share about themselves online. I was following while someone was Twittering a wedding yesterday more out of curiosity than anything else. That seems like such a private occasion, one to be shared with friends and family and not strangers like me who hit the “Follow” button on Twitter.

But this might just be a generational difference (gets out walker…)

If you include discussion groups, email groups, and bulletin boards as “social media”, I’ve been participating since 1996. Lately, I’ve begun to expand to new forms like Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn but I’m losing connections with my older circle of web friends.

I’m finding that there is a limit to how much time I can spend “keeping up” with social networking and might just return to individual email messages. Or, less drastically, I might focus in on one network and not try to be on every system because I know a few people on that particular network.

It’s not a popular thought but I definitely think there are limits to how many “friends” you can have and still BE a friend. Facebook and MySpace have made the work “friend” become almost meaningless in that it is applied to complete strangers one might never even have contact with. That defeats the purpose of distinguishing ones friends from the general public, I think.

Of course, I’m constantly amazed at how much people share about themselves online. I was following while someone was Twittering a wedding yesterday more out of curiosity than anything else. That seems like such a private occasion, one to be shared with friends and family and not strangers like me who hit the “Follow” button on Twitter.

But this might just be a generational difference (gets out walker…)

If you include discussion groups, email groups, and bulletin boards as “social media”, I’ve been participating since 1996. Lately, I’ve begun to expand to new forms like Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn but I’m losing connections with my older circle of web friends.

I’m finding that there is a limit to how much time I can spend “keeping up” with social networking and might just return to individual email messages. Or, less drastically, I might focus in on one network and not try to be on every system because I know a few people on that particular network.

It’s not a popular thought but I definitely think there are limits to how many “friends” you can have and still BE a friend. Facebook and MySpace have made the work “friend” become almost meaningless in that it is applied to complete strangers one might never even have contact with. That defeats the purpose of distinguishing ones friends from the general public, I think.

Of course, I’m constantly amazed at how much people share about themselves online. I was following while someone was Twittering a wedding yesterday more out of curiosity than anything else. That seems like such a private occasion, one to be shared with friends and family and not strangers like me who hit the “Follow” button on Twitter.

But this might just be a generational difference (gets out walker…)