Too many links
Posted on November 22, 2008
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We finally caved in and responded to the dozens of messages in our inbox inviting us to join Plaxo Pulse (the last invitation - from the rector of our old church - somehow put me over the top). It was reminiscent of all the invitations we once received to join LinkedIn. Plaxo used to be a web app for keeping Outlook contacts updated (and useless to a Mac user), but its latest incarnation seems to be about social networking. LinkedIn used to be about social networking, but now seems mostly to be about employment. To top it off, when I ‘Plaxo’d’ colleague Ezra Roizen, he responded that he only used Vator.tv (he’d better, he’s married to the CEO) - sheesh. And I’m not going anywhere near Facebook et al…
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I’ve been struggling to resist all these redundant social networks too. I’m holding off on Plaxo since LinkedIn is good enough for maintaining career connections, but I finally had to break down and create a FaceBook account with my real name–without it I was losing track of children who are sitting across the room from me(!) For some reason they thought my Eric Blair account was off-putting.
Got to spend some time getting my self-hosted OpenID identity working, then push friends, family and foes alike to use that instead. Maintaining control of one’s digital identity will be an increasingly challenging but always compelling task.