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Social Time Suck

I am starting the new year off by focusing on bigger priorities in my life. Just deleted most social & check-in app’s from my phone: Path, Miso, Foursquare, etc. I’m focusing on just Facebook, Twitter and my blog. All these social app’s are just one big time suck on the day.

  • http://bendodson.com/ bendodson

    Yup I agree.

    Path – deleted after a week as I realised that most of the stuff on there was duplicated in my friends feeds. Having to remember to tell it I’ve gone to bed and woken up was also frustrating.

    Miso – deleted that after a week (along with Glue which is similar) as it wasn’t adding any value. If I want to tell my friends I’m watching Mad Men, I can tweet it rather than checking in on an app and having that post it. If it was recommending good shows to me based on what I’d watched previously then it might be worth it (like Last.fm) but I can’t see the point of checking into something just because it’s there.

    Foursquare / Gowalla – I used to like checking in at places and tweeting from those apps as it gave a bit more context (e.g. followers could see what was at the place, photos, etc) but I hate Foursquare (far too many game mechanics) and I haven’t found a replacement for Gowalla. Path had location stuff but wasn’t quite right. Maybe something new will come along one day…

    So yeah, I’ve turned all that crap off as well. Just the blog and Twitter for me!

    • http://www.ericl.me Eric Longstaff

      I just started thinking about what’s important to me. And just realized “what the hell am I doing”? Who cares if I check-in to a location or watch a TV show. I could just mention this on Twitter, Facebook or my blog. That’s what they are there for, free form text to chat about stuff. There’s really no need for the minutia micro-app.

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