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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

So it's the day after it was announced that G+ will be closing.

So it's the day after it was announced that G+ will be closing. I've joined a group that discusses how to migrate somewhere else, and already there are heaps of posts waiting for me to look at. But so far I'm not sold on anything I've looked at . I've tried diaspora which to me looks like LIVE JOURNAL from 11 years ago. There's something called WeMe but it looks geared towards phone use and I don't put social media on my phone - what with poor eyesight and encroaching arthritis.

The thing that gets to me is this - no matter what solution I pick I will lose some of the connections I've made on G+. That's inevitable because not everyone will go on to the choice I eventually make, if they bother at all. And that annoys the shit out of me. I don't particularly want to be on half a dozen social media platforms.

I started out using Live Journal in 2004 while I was doing a TAFE library course. I stuck with that for a long time. I originally got on Facebook to share a photo I'd taken at a student conference earlier in the year. But I found I couldn't cope with Facebook very well back then, and I'm now on the 3rd FB account. The reason I stayed was mostly because friends I knew from real life and Live Journal . And while I still have a Live Journal account, Facebook effectively killed it by being "the app that everyone was on".

I joined Google+ after a contact in Facebook mentioned they were thinking of moving to it. They didn't, but I liked the feature mix in G+ - communities that worked and were about my interests and past times, and collections which I could share and/or subscribe to. For me G+ has been a platform I can take my time with, one that wasn't really designed for desktops as an afterthought to smart phone usage. I guess as well that my usage of Facebook has been very different than my usage here Facebook is for day-to-day domestic stuff. Google+ has (mostly) been for my interests , passions, and past times.

I will be missing G+, whatever I do afterwards.
#GooglePlus #LiveJournal #Facebook #SocialMedia

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4 comments:

  1. Leighton MarjoramOctober 9, 2018 at 5:06 PM

    I can relate to this post so much, FB sucks and I just won't use it the level of toxicity is too much for me. Google+ is and has been my favourite social network, I feel I have genuinely made some amazing connections with people. It makes me sad to think I may lose them as it winds down.

    I am on WeMe and I like the desktop experience and a few have already said hi. I think I am going through a process of loss weirdly that I never experienced dumping FB a couple of months ago.

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  2. Alicia SmithOctober 9, 2018 at 6:04 PM

    Aye.

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  3. Laura EssOctober 9, 2018 at 9:08 PM

    Leighton Marjoram Facebook, is like a one armed bandit. It looks like it could be good but it only gives you scraps to keep you going.

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  4. Stephen GunnellOctober 9, 2018 at 11:26 PM

    I've signed up to Diaspora in the Pluspora pod as Steveg58. I'm going to get a feel for it and see how many of my friends end up there. I'm a bit leery of MeWe because it seems to be a trollheim. And it is set up like Reddit / 4Chan with the management saying "everyone here is a good person". Hmmm ... I have a bridge for sale.

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