The other day I was trying to write a blog while I had two conversations going on on msn (at the same time and in two different languages about two different subjects) and while I was waiting for an important email. So I checked my email account from time to time and deliberately did NOT log in on twitter, facebook or whatever because I knew I wouldn’t be able to handle it. Unnecessary to mention that writing the blog didn’t really work.
Today I have registered on friendfeed which is like a feedreader version mix of the facebook wall and homepage and everything else you want like delicious, twitter etc. Trying to add facebook to my friendfeed ended up in adding first friendfeed and then twitter to my facebook applications instead.
What seemed to be very practical at first sight turned into a communication overload when I was trying to tweet and use the facebook messenger at the same time. I also couldn’t get to my direct twitter messages from facebook without having to log in on the regular twitter page too. I could have reached my dm via TwitterFox but that would have been another extra window to look at.
The facebook application system makes sense to me (and would even more if it offered the full range of possibilities without having to log in again in another window). But I wonder if you really could be able to realise everything that is going on if you had ALL your social media tools, blogs, feedreader and whatever IN ONE tool.
I just CANNOT follow if I have only three of them open at the same time!
All in one? But how on earth???
Am I already too old? I’m 36 now (okay 36 and more than a half). Look, I have grown up with old fashioned things like handwritten letters, in a time without mobile and computers. I know from my own experience what a taperecorder is and how you record things from the radio. And I know that Del Amitri’s line “the needle returns to the start of the song” has nothing to do with drug addiction but with a record player!
Am I a perception-dinosaur?
Btw. a blind friend of mine checked blogs for accessibility for me the other day. He said that the validity of the code was no problem, reading blogposts either. BUT… all those links around them! He couldn’t visually identify it was the widgets and sidebars he refered to. To him it was just an unmanageable flood of links. But honestly that’s how I felt when I saw a blog for the first time. And I could SEE them as a list in the sidebar.
So where will it all end?
Will social media, internet, music, tv and whatever end up in the one final and total mashup where you can do and see everything at the same time? And even mobile? And would we be able to follow it at all? Can you still handle it?
