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Social Me Up, Scotty

If a greater waster of time has been invented than the social networking website, I don’t want to know about it–God, I’m losing enough time as it is. Still, they serve their purposes and I thought it was about time that I post another “here’s where you can find me” entry with links to my various profiles. Mostly because social networking is a game that you win by having a lot of friends and connections, but also because I like to keep tabs on the people who keep tabs on me, and these sites make it easier.

Flickr

Flickr is my raw work feed for photography. I do some editing down before work goes up there, but it’s not my portfolio or anything. If I think a photo is worth seeing, it goes there. If I still feel it is worth seeing, I post it here too. I always, always add contacts back on Flickr, so please feel free to add me.

Facebook

I’ve only recently begun to really get into Facebook. I signed up for it relatively early on and was so inundated with werewolf and vampire bites that I quickly discounted it as being good for anything other than wasting time. However, as it achieves critical mass even over the old beast of MySpace, more and more people are finding me there and using it as their primary means of communicating with me. Not that it was ever hard to find my website, but I guess nobody uses Google to find people anymore? My profile’s status update is maintained via Twitter, (see below) so I guess you could say I am now an active Facebook user. And I try to look over other people’s lives about once a day there. Just do me a favor and don’t send me any app requests. I don’t want to install any of them. No fish, no puppies, and no god damned vampire bites. I don’t even like scrabble. Yes, you may shun me now for the social networking pariah that I have become.

LinkedIn

Have we worked together in a semi-official capacity? Link in to me. If not, I’d prefer you use the other services. This is the only one of the networks I try to keep “business-only.” I’m pretty loose on what I define as “worked together” though.

Twitter

The only social networking app I resisted longer than Twitter was MySpace. I had been aware of Twitter for a very long time, but I couldn’t see the point of it. I had a blog. I had an instant messenger. What good was it? Then I started using my cell phone for something other than making phone calls and it slowly clicked into place. Now I spend more time talking and sharing ideas on Twitter than I do on instant messenger, which is just weird. I always follow back anyone who follows me, so please do follow me.

Boxee

Boxee is a social networking media player for your TV (assuming you have a computer hooked up for it). It makes it a million times easier to watch sites like Hulu in the living room instead of the office (assuming you have a computer in your living room, which I do). Apple TV, Windows Media Center, you name it. Boxee is currently in alpha and runs on Ubuntu, Windows, and OSX. It’s buggy as hell but I love it. If you need an invitation, let me know.

Delicious

Social bookmarking tool of the web stone age. I never used it for the social aspects except in the sense that I follow a feed of what everyone else is bookmarking with it so that I can pick up on useful materials. But if you want to send me links and receive links from me, please feel free.

MySpace

I have a profile on MySpace solely for communicating with bands that I have photographed or want to photograph. I can’t stand the sight of that ugly site, so I try to use it as little as possible. If you can find me, you’re welcome to friend me, but I am not going to ask anyone to do so. I’d like to discourage use of the site as much as possible. Bad design needs to be punished. (And there go my chances of ever having a job with MySpace…)