Comments on: The Social Media Contrarian

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:25:35 +0000

I have a group of friend that uses facebook for emails. I don’t get it either. First of all, they can’t include non-facebook users like my wife. Second, I don’t know I have a facebook message until I get an email notice. I’m already in email, why would I then want to log into facebook.

By: Cstar

Cstar — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:37:19 +0000

Agree completely with your last point about message boards. As I watch all the social media experts clamor for everything from threaded conversations on Twitter, to touting them on FriendFeed, to calling for collapsible threads on Buzz, it keeps going though my mind that every one of them is simply trying to reinvent message boards. We already have message boards, and that’s where the real conversations (and friendships) happen.

By: jbxpro

jbxpro — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:22:59 +0000

Another plus for email is that conversations can be archived easily. I hate to admit it, but sometimes I forget what someone told me … or I like to forward an email I already wrote to someone that I should have included in the first place. But perhaps “social” communications are ephemeral by definition. Never mind.