socialmedian: How I went from hating Facebook and Twitter to loving them and why I still don't get Friendfeed.

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How I went from hating Facebook and Twitter to loving them and why I still don't get Friendfeed.

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Dec 19, 2008

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Last year, my husband fell head over heels in love with Facebook (a social networking site) and tried to evangelize everyone else to join in as well. The year before that, he was obssessed with Twitter, a microblogging site. I banned him from repeating twitter every five minutes around the house, unless he wanted to sleep on the couch forever and told him I was not interested in joinning Facebook. "I am not antisocial," I would say. "I am just anti-social networks." And we left it at that. You see, my husband, Robert Scoble has been a technical evangelist and is an early adapter of any new software program and shiny gadget he happens to come by any given day of the week. He thrives on stuff like this. I usually let him get over his frantic lust of the new program and gadgets and if he hasn't forgotten about them in a year or two, maybe I give it a try. By that time, they've fixed most of the bugs. I started blogging four years after he did. You catch my drift.

So a year or so had passed and Robert was still happily using Facebook and Twitter but I still wasn'

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Comments (5)

Thomaspower,

Dec 20, 2008

Same for me ... took me a whole year to get Friendfeed.

Michaelfidler,

Dec 21, 2008

@thomaspower It took a while for me too. One day I revisited ff, and it all made perfect sense. I think it was information overload the first times I tried it. I'm glad I went back and gave it another chance!

Emmeffe2,

Dec 21, 2008

I've used FF for a while now, used private rooms straight away and that was useful, later discovered other uses. Initially I did not get Twitter at all, now I like it but I still don't get Facebook.

Jennifly,

Dec 22, 2008

same for me too, love FB and twitter but cannot get into FF.....I know its valuable, and I need to really spend a day using it....until watch this space.