I am not a big fan of the real-time web but anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis will know that. My principal problem is that I think that by relying too much on the real-time web through services like Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook we may actually be missing out on more things than we think we are.
Rocky Agrawal from reDesign is thinking the same thing it seems.
One of my friends recently got engaged and posted that fact on Facebook. I missed it.
It’s one of the frustrations of the constantly flowing river of news in social networks — births, deaths, weddings and job changes get lost amid the links to pictures of kittens, “what state should I live in quizzes?”, stories about Internet celebrities and the other trivia of life.
There’s no way to get a summary of the important stuff. On many news sites, we have a variety of clues: the size of a headline and the relative placement of stories serve as indicators a story’s importance. We need similar clues for social media.
Social Media seems to be more about poking, quizzes or viral this and that instead of being about conversation. Mixed in amongst all the constant flow of non-information are things that might be important to us but we’re missing it.
The missing piece to the Social Media puzzle
Social Media – is it just a cooler name for mass media evolution?
Do we really want a Facebook Web?
I would have to agree when you look solely at stuff like Twitter. Part of the problem is learning to use the tools we have to not miss certain things. Facebook has lists or groups and FriendFeed has them as well. You can create a “must-read” list if you really wanted. The other part is that if you are really interested in someone's updates, you can always view just their updates.
In the end, the problem is going to be time and education. Do most users really know how to use the new Facebook UI? Do they really want to take the time to learn it?
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