social networks : what use are they?
Mar. 18th, 2009 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperprecisely, what do people tend to use them for? And ratio of importance.
lj is my big one. Reading material, links to interesting stuff, etc. Almost completely fandom-focussed - very few of the flist is people I know in RL. I only read people whose writing style I like, and I have strange criteria for that.
facebook - IRL people. My way of keeping track of RL friends/cousins/etc. I hate it, but it's useful for the occasional check of what's going on meetup wise and collaring people when you need to leave messages and so on. That and convention photos.
twitter - this one's like a teensie version of lj. It provides interesting reading material - tells you bugger all about what's actually going on, but it's good for amusement value. And no fucker is throwing sheep at you.
messageboards - almost total disconnect, unless you count my once or twice-monthly check of Whitechapel, Internet Jesus's temple of worship - when he posts about interesting remake-remodels going on there and the self-portrait thread.
In other news, need to sort out stuff for oxfam, check whether the leather trench is ebay-able, get brum train tickets, buy food, make-up, vitamins, pay bills, and go through the she-ra outfit to see what I need to do to make it. Slightly despairing of the sword since I have *no* modelling skills.
lj is my big one. Reading material, links to interesting stuff, etc. Almost completely fandom-focussed - very few of the flist is people I know in RL. I only read people whose writing style I like, and I have strange criteria for that.
facebook - IRL people. My way of keeping track of RL friends/cousins/etc. I hate it, but it's useful for the occasional check of what's going on meetup wise and collaring people when you need to leave messages and so on. That and convention photos.
twitter - this one's like a teensie version of lj. It provides interesting reading material - tells you bugger all about what's actually going on, but it's good for amusement value. And no fucker is throwing sheep at you.
messageboards - almost total disconnect, unless you count my once or twice-monthly check of Whitechapel, Internet Jesus's temple of worship - when he posts about interesting remake-remodels going on there and the self-portrait thread.
In other news, need to sort out stuff for oxfam, check whether the leather trench is ebay-able, get brum train tickets, buy food, make-up, vitamins, pay bills, and go through the she-ra outfit to see what I need to do to make it. Slightly despairing of the sword since I have *no* modelling skills.
