Facebook, twitter, friendfeed, etc all social sites like these rely on you the user to be social, without the users they are nothing, so I find it a bit crazy that they limit how social you can be.
Twitter has an API limit which I have only hit twice in all the time I have used it and it usually only stops you for that hour. Although the first time it was more like two hours before I could tweet again. People can use other platforms like tweetdeck to avoid this limit, I don’t use other platforms, prefer to use the twitter site itself. Twitter should stick to the hour if they say it’s an hour.
Friendfeed may not have this “blocking” type of stupidity on their users, they want you using it as much as possible, although I have to say I am starting to see a fair bit of ignorance there nowadays, some people there will slate me for saying it but I couldn’t careless, I am not going to tell you anything but how I see it. Someone can post one word there and get tons of response, others get no response. I feel less likely to be social there if I am ignored.
It’s now just somewhere for me to find interesting stuff. I loved it at first, but I am not the only one who is getting turned off by the way people tend to ignore things, Scoble could post one word and get tons of comments, it IS a Scoble fan club.
Facebook, well they have some pathetic rules on their limits and are so vague with them too, having hit a limit last night, I know silly me, being social with my friends… sheesh how dare I be like that!
It was commenting on statuses that I hit, the very social part of the whole damn site is commenting with friends. The limit warning popped up saying it could be hours or days before it stops. How pathetic, and they treat their users terrible. They take liberties because they have so many users they feel you are IRRELEVANT and a pain.
There is no way to deal with the limit, they will not even check before blocking you, it’s a case of like it or lump it.
Even groups on facebook have been created to complain about how the users get treated.
Listen up faceache… without those users your site is NOTHING!
Why bother creating a social site and limit how social your users can be?
Dumb move, must be run by dumb people with no idea. After all we know facebook is making no money, they NEED us, should everyone dump facebook they would be in the shit then.
I think all of these social sites should start to consider the fact people will get annoyed at being treated like crap, that includes the users too!
Take the social out of them and they are just dead, empty spaces, user generated sites rely on users so don’t piss them off!
Another great reason to stick to building your own blog, site, business. In a year or two other sites will pop up and take users away from these places.
What are your thoughts?
Grab the button.
I got turned off of Facebook because of lack of social interaction so I hardly use that anymore.
As far as FriendFeed, I do love it even though I don't usually get comments or likes. It bothered me for a while, but finally I got to a point where I decided that FriendFeed was primarily a learning tool for me. So now I don't feel as much discouragement if I feel invisible.
I do love Scoble – he's the one who brought me over to FriendFeed and I'll always be a Scoble fan.
I don't know about you, but I don't really have friends in "real life" (other than my fabulous hubby), so virtual friends are all I have to talk to. In particular, I get snubbed a lot by females and even treated quite cruel by my own gender. And since having no girlfriend pals is a source of heartfelt pain for me, I sometimes "lash out" or vent. I did that once on FriendFeed, then deleted my posts.
I have to keep bringing myself to a place of inner peace when I feel like nobody would notice or care if I dropped dead. This is not an easy thing to do – just something to keep working at.
We're wired to be social. To be heard and valued. It bothers our soul if there's a deficit there. But society seems to be more and more wired to be isolated, anti-social & self-sufficient, making the deficit even larger.
All I know is that when I'm bothered by things like this, I try to remember that I need to quiet my mind and and focus more on positive, more peaceful things in the deepest parts of my soul.
Hiya, thanks for that, great to talk further about this on friendfeed, kind of ironic given the post ;o)
I am very active on facebook, or was until they stupidly stopped me being so, then again they are local friends and they all know I am deaf so don't use a phone etc… the net is my phone. ;o)
Friendfeed is a great place to see interesting things, I often share alot of what I find there with the friends on facebook, it is great when it gets going, just frustrating at times. Guess I should be more like you and not let it bother me.
Funny about Scoble…people thik I don't like him, which is not true, got nothing against him at all, it's what happens with those around him, so blantant with the ass kissing and such, it is ironic it was Robert that got me onto frienfeed! I'm NO fanboy with anyone…. ;o)
Have to say though, I feel his bro Alex is more on our level, Robert is ahead on the curve in some ways, maybe Alex is ahead of us all to, but he is nearer us in the way it comes over… in a way he doesn't need to be ahead of the curve whereas Robert does, just by the fact who he is and what he does. ;o)
We are wired to be social. Lets use it right..
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Can't see why you aint got a ton of friends the way I see you… ;o)
Thanks again..
Rob
Thank you for that,