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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1522916]

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[andrewducker]

Reading:
Facebook's something I dip into on my phone when bored on a bus. Twitter gets scanned once a day for about 5 minutes. LJ is the only site I really keep up with.

Writing:
I bookmark things on Delicious that then feed back into LJ as a daily post, and onto Twitter on a half-hourly basis.
I update Facebook intermittently, and that also feeds onto Twitter on a half-hourly basis.

[andabusers.livejournal.com]

I has also been reading OKCupid and last.fm, if they count.

[andrewducker]

OKCupid definitely does.

Last.fm is an odd one. Do you actively write for it, or does it just collect your stats passively?

[andabusers.livejournal.com]

I actually talk to people quite a lot on last.fm, on their walls or with song recommendations. Also update my journal fairly regularly.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

You've made some of those up...

[andlosers.livejournal.com]

He hasn't. I was just thinking the other day how much fun Bebo is to say.

[andlosers.livejournal.com]

Reading:

Livejournal used to be my main read, but it's very quiet compared to other networks. Still, I check it a couple of times a day. Ditto Facebook, which I've found most of my friends are on.

Twitter gets checked very regularly, and is how I get a lot of my tech jobs. LinkedIn gets checked daily as well for similar reasons (but I forgot to mention it in the poll). Hacker News is becoming more of an active site for me as well, and lately I've been thinking it's a more useful information source for me than anything else I use.

Writing:

I'll probably post 6 or 8 messages to Twitter in a day, and maybe the same number of replies. Facebook will get a status update every couple of days. I feel sort of dirty touching it more than that.

I posted a bunch of messages to LinkedIn yesterday, and discovered it was a pretty good way of drawing in potential business. I'm going to try and do that more.

My LJ has become my diary - it's very nearly ten years old - so I try and write something on it at least once a week. I'll occasionally go for weeks without writing something substantial though.

And I love taking photos and uploading them to Flickr, but haven't really had much inspiration lately. It's hard to find anything as visually interesting as anything in my road trip album from this Christmas; it's all a bit grey and drab. I'll probably take more as we get closer to summer.

[andlosers.livejournal.com]

From this answer, I learn several things about myself:

1. While ten years ago my Internet usage was entirely personal, these days it's almost all about business and career.

2. I'm kidding myself that Twitter is useful for business. Probably need to cut down on it.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, your Twitter usage sounds like the way it's designed to be used. I've discovered that because it's blocked at work it's pretty much no use to me, I can't use it "conversationally".

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

yes, OKCupid and LastFM. OKCupid feels more like a social networking site, but one where I'm actively hunting out new people.

[andrewducker]

List of social websites from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Opendiary.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, I'd not even heard of them. There used to be a couple of other diary sites, but I'm buggered if I can remember what they were called.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

They were the first online networking site I discovered, aaaaaages ago in 2001. =)

[andrewducker]

aha! It was Diaryland I was thinking of.

Useful timeline here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging_timeline

OpenDiary was 98, DiaryLand and LJ were both 99.

I didn't get onto LJ until 2001, of course. Late adopter that I am.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Livejournal is no longer my main blog so I don't update anywhere near as much as I used to. Other blog gets a "mention in the comments" tick, I don't see that it is any less an example of social networking than LJ. Oh, and I also regularly post to mailing lists.

[andrewducker]

Personal blogs definitely count. I should have included Blogger.com as well!

[simont]

(Dreamwidth.)

[andrewducker]

Dammit! I meant to include that!

[matgb]

Silly fule.

I didn't tick I've updated FB, because that just imports my tweets. But I rarely update anywhere these days, and commenting is less common as well.

Might change when the job settles down and my finances are terrible.

[wychwood]

+1

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

I just do LJ and FB pretty much. I answered that I've read both Twitter and MySpace this week, but you just happened to post this poll within a week of my rare visits to those sites.

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

I post on Twitter but I don't read it as the posts on it all seem dull as dishwasher. However, posting links there seems to get traffic, so whatever. Clearly some people like it.

Delicious is handy for linkblogging. I avoid editorializing on it too much as it's public.

Facebook is great for staying aware of your friends and acquaintances, seeing cool personal photos, and sharing opinions and brief documentation of your life experience. I find that there's a premium on cleverness and wit in its status updates as compared to Twitter. It also allows for much more raunchiness, as your posts are not there for all the world to see.

LiveJournal is great for longer posts. I tend to spend the most time of the bunch reading and lurking on it.

[white_hart]

Other sites: posting/updating Ravelry and my Wordpress knitting blog, reading Ravelry, DW and a collection of blogs via Google Reader.

[draconid.livejournal.com]

The other being Dreamwidth which I now use almost exclusively rather than LJ. I still read LJ for those people who haven't migrated. I only ever post to LJ when there's something specific I want certain LJ people to read about.

[andrewducker]

I must do a DW poll.

[draconid.livejournal.com]

Yes. You must! Or you could just cross-post them all so I don't have to come to LJ to fill them out!

[andrewducker]

If more of my friends were on DW then I might be tempted - but every time I see crossposts there's massively more discussion on the LJ side.

[matgb]

Crossposting polls rarely works, they get hosted on the DW side, and they still haven't fixed the DW OpenID UI to make it usable without a walkthrough.

Really looking forward to the reading LJ on DW thing if Mark gets it working.

But yeah, concur with Andrew, more of my friends have stayed on LJ, and are more likely to comment/vote here.

But more of my non-LJ friends react to my DW posts, which is nice.

[darkoshi]

I've updated Youtube. I follow a few non-LJ blogs, but I happen not to have read them in the past week.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I try to regularly update my blog on blogspot, http://giallo-fever.blogspot.com/