Web 2.0 – Setting up my online social world

“Mastering a social network for effective use seems to be an art and pardon my ignorance in this space (I’m learning the mastery, I suppose )”

A short intro of self in this online social world:

• A sporadic blogger active for short period of times.
• Have tried out twitter in the past for status updates
• Reasonably frequent user of facebook to keep in touch with friends
• Use flickr for photo sharing.
• And visit a lot more sites to keep my self up to date…

What do I really want to do with my social networks?
Sitting back and thinking about what do I really want to do with this online social world – My answer was “Share my quick and long thoughts/photos with my friends”, “be up to date with what my friends are upto”, “Have a sense of whats happening in the world – tech and nontech”

Okay.. So, Where are my friends in the internet?? Facebook – most of them.. Hardly anyone in my network is active in orkut these days.. This implies – Whatever I find interesting and my experiences/thoughts/photos will have to be shared in facebook..

What other tools do I need?
I need a blog for my long writings – I use wordpress for this… Twitter/FB should be good enough for microblogging.. I’m happy with flickr for managing my photos.. Too many networks to deal with…Yahoo is planning a meta social network – Nice!!!, but it is still not ready..

So my solution which I think should work:

• Blogging: WordPress will be my solution
• Microblogging: I’ve still not made up my mind here – Twitter Vs FB status updates.
• Photos: Flickr
• Friends network: Facebook
• Keeping self up to date: I still visit sites like techcrunch, mashable.com, yahoo! news, finance etc daily to get some news.. Need to investigate if this can be made better.

Hooking these together:

• Blogs (WordPress): Using “twitterfeed” to notify Facebook (and Twitter – just to experiment).
• Photos (Flickr): Using “My Flickr” app to notify Facebook.
• Microblogging (Possibly twitter): Using “Selective tweets” facebook application to notify Facebook.

End this blog dude
For now, I don’t see twitter being very useful for me (All twitter fans – please excuse!!!..) since there is huge overlap between my fb friends list and twitter friends list.. I see the tweets redundantly in both places.. And, I’m currently doing the same .. One thing though I love about it is following the celebrities.. And Btw, LinkedIn is out of scope here – I am not talking about professional networks..

So, why setup all this??

• I seem to have some free time now and thought I’ll experiment with this.
• I see a behavioral change in self to speak out my mind through these networks (and at times spam you guys).. I want to see if I can share better stuff in a better manner..

Crossed fingers.. Will keep this post updated as I experiment more with these integrations..

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