Disconnected
I’m finding it difficult to find any enthusiasm within me for G+, despite being a borderline Google fangirl. For a long time I was very anxious for a viable facebook alternative.
The thing is, I don’t think I even want an alternative to facebook anymore. I just feel so incredibly done with social networking as a THING.
I don’t need a “social networking” site. I need a “hermit occasionally bump into other people and maybe share a jug of moonshine” site.
But, let’s pretend that I am open to using something vaguely social still.
I would need G+ to integrate with Google Reader in a smooth and significant way.
I would need to be able to EASILY mark things as read. The current Mute is too many steps. Plus, I’d like to be able to mark as Read, but show me again if new content is added.
I’d need some way of labeling or tagging content, both purposeful tagging by the author based on topics, and autotagging by G+ based on type (a link post versus a photo post versus a shared post) so that I could filter reading lists based on both circles and content type. Some people I am very interested in their original content, but really don’t want to see the 100s of goofy links they post per day.
Mostly though, I am tired. I am old. I’ve been living a very rich and dear to me online life since before the web existed. Quite frankly, the more sites rise up to connect us to people, the less I feel truly connected to the people who actually matter most to me.
My month long dumb phone experiment has stretched into a month and a half with me hardly blinking. Rather than chomping at the bit to hurry and get a new smart phone, I feel half tempted to give up my laptop instead.
Tags dumb phone - experiment - facebook - friends - get off of my lawn - googleplus - leave me the fuck alone - midlife tech crisis - socialnetworking - technology - tori unplugged - ungeeking
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“Quite frankly, the more sites rise up to connect us to people, the less I feel truly connected to the people who actually matter most to me.” Very nicely said. The more time I spend connecting to “friends” on Facebook, the less time I spend with my family.