3 posts tagged “social networking”

Although I have finally tired of Facebook, my friend Jason Alba has co-authored one on the service, called I’m on Facebook—Now What?, to which I contributed briefly.
   I would recommend this as a how-to guide for those unfamiliar with social networks. The authors employ a lot of the tricks I use for the service. Do get it if you are new to Facebook, or even if you are not so new to it.

Hugh MacLeod very kindly invited me to join Quechup—another social networking site. On there, you can feed in New Zealand (which is more than I can say for some sites I encountered in the early 1990s), but a compulsory field is ‘Region’. There is no empty spot—everything is taken.
   Only problem is, if you live in any of the main cities, there is no corresponding region. The closest to Wellington (where I am) is ‘Hutt’. I suppose I could put ‘Raumati South’. I did check in Māori as well for Whanganui-a-Tara and Poneke, to no avail.
   Stuff it, I put in New York, NY. Well, I can get mail there. It might not be patriotic, but it might have to do.
   (I have sent feedback to Quechup on this, so that this entry is not behind their backs.)

PS.: Maybe Hugh never sent that invitation. I’ve left Quechup after reading several reports, including this one from Robert Scoble.—JY

If anyone is wondering where I have been, the answer is Facebook. Darn, that site is addictive. There are groups on there as well as a social-networking function, and my opinion (with my initial opposition) has turned 180 degrees thanks to Facebook’s good service and the tidiness of its interface. The groups themselves have more or less supplanted my interest in Yahoo! Groups. I can even import my blog entries.
   There are half a dozen Jack Yans on there, however, though I imagine you do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out which one is yours truly.
   There is an awful lot of Canadians there, which is interesting. I am not sure if Facebook is a Canadian site, but their nationals seem to have taken to it more than any other group.
   Any friends reading this, feel free to link me. Quite a few of my contacts there appear to be fellow bloggers to whom I am linked through my main site’s blog roll.