Creeva’s World 2.0

We all go through it, a new web ser­vice launches and we think it’s the great­est thing since sliced bread.   We add a few friends con­vinving them to leave their cur­rent plat­form and migrate over to your new find.   Time goes by and a few months later you are real­iz­ing that your not really using that web ser­vice.   You don’t want to aban­don your friends, you also don’t want to login to give them updates.  This is the dilema that many users online are fac­ing daily.   Unfor­tu­an­tely I can’t give you a com­plete answer, but I can explain to you what I do.

One thing I uti­lize in my social net­works is cross­post­ing.   Uti­liz­ing word­press plu­g­ins and gen­eral trick­ery I man­age to cross­post to my most used social net­works where I may or may not have any friends, but I’m there so my friends can choose which social net­work they wish to fol­low me on instead of what I am using.   Unfor­tu­nately what I’ve learned is that I’m happy to update myself on social net­works, but most peo­ple I know update slowly and don’t pro­duce much con­tent for me to read, so I more or less catch up on all of them via Spokeo.   Cross post­ing allows me though to update them with­out me hav­ing to man­u­ally go update myself on those other net­works.   For all intents and pur­poses from my point of view if I don’t login and inter­act with that ser­vice any­more it’s aban­doned.   The ser­vices I do cross post to are vox, myspace, xanga, live spaces, live jour­nal (which cross­post to dan­delife for me), blog­ger, and multiply.

This how­ever only allows a frac­tion of the ser­vices I used in the past that share my con­tent and link back to my main blog.   For other ser­vices I uti­lize RSS feed wid­gets or even auto­matic updates that occur via the RSS feed.   The ser­vices I use to cross­post my RSS feed items are tum­blr, twit­ter, jaiku, face­book, suprglu, friend­feed, and lijit.   This allows all my updates to occur over to those sites.

I only inter­act with a hand­ful of ser­vices, luck­ily ser­vices I do like flickr, youtube, face­book, and live­jour­nal all import their com­ments back to my blog.   All web ser­vices I use that allow for an RSS feed I import via email sub­scrip­tions through feed­burner.   This allows me to life cache.

If you have a ser­vice that you don’t use any more dis­cover some­way to import your updated con­tent into it.   A lit­tle bit of effort that is auto­matic in the future goes a long way to main­tain­ing those friend­ships you have on your social net­works.   It also stops your friends from get­ting upset with you for aban­don­ing them (they’ll never know the difference).