Today, my fellow peoples, I blog about blogging. Or micro-blogging. Or whatever the kids call digital media today. I call it late. Late, where was it supposed to be and when? No, like the late micro-blogging.
I’m not exactly the hippest cat. I used a series of platforms along the way, and each of them had issues. While this is almost definitely a terrible rehash of most others’ experiences, it’s better that I put them in a list and why I dislike them, though usually I’ll only be taking about the straw that broke the camel’s back.
- Myspace – scrolling text, annoying bands, audio enabled stuff. There are probably more things, but it’s been a while.
- Livejournal – I know, I totally used to lj. I had a couple real life friends, filed a couple other people, realized it was kind of a cathartic mess at times, saw something that made me any about me (I don’t know way it was anymore, so I probably deserved it) on a friend’s journal. I think I scrubbed it on the way out the door.
Oh yeah, none of this is necessarily chronological, or possibly accurate.
- Facebook, how I despitheth the – it was Myspace without unicorns, marquees, or music. As someone who regularly dances with negativity, I was already put off by it. In the aughts. Then, when ever I went to use a service anywhere the fuck else, they wanted me to sign in with Facebook. The Facebook icons on other pages being used for tracking. I didn’t care for any of that. Ooh – we’re going to harvest phone numbers from your phone, we’ll push everyone to use messenger, we’ll get phone manufacturer contacts to make Facebook ununinstallable unless you got your phone. But really, when they got rid of chronological order. When they started prioritizing. When they started activating my agoraphobia. Now the whole big data, Russian thing, not super surprised. I’d recommend anyone that wants to see what’s going to happen someday read more science fiction. And be paranoid.
- Twitter – I actually miss. It’s, currently, a doomed platform. To fix the hemorrhaging of cash, they started prioritizing and loosing chronological order.
- Reddit – but that interface.
- Instagram – the Facebook of food, beer, and selfies. With picture filters even. Chronological order looks like it just slipped it’s digital coil. Not cool bro. Not cool. Which is why I started writing all this down.
- Snapchat – never used it. The things I see from the side of it are annoying.
- Google+ – lolz. First do no matter analysis for why people should use it.
- Periscope – I think that a thing. I’m putting it on the list. I assume it’ll make me sad.
- YouTube? – video blogging I suppose? Weird policies, annoying upload features. I’ll voyeur the daylights out of it, but it has its challenges.
This will be continued, maybe even with a why once I start digging into it a bit more.