Timeline
Emotionally curated content culled from any source to share with anyone regardless of reciprocity.
That seems to be the goal of Facebook’s announcement today. A lofty one, but clearly feasible. Facebook is continuing on its quest of becoming the everything system.
The few problems I’ve had and continue to have are the lack of actual curated friendships on Facebook. There’s a ton of pollution and I worry with a Timeline and Ticker, it will only continue to become polluted. Less and less do I rely on Facebook for discovery, and instead rely more heavily on Twitter.
It’s in rare cases that I’d like to share something personal, photo album, event, etc, that I turn to Facebook. I’m curious how many others feel the same, and whether or not there’s a better opportunity for a mobile app or service to provide these tools. Who knows maybe it’s something Color or MobileMe come iCloud will solve.
That said, it’s a huge draw for me having a centralized repository inclusive of my most frequent social visitors. Really brilliant when it comes to the number of services I use, discover, and share with, that others may not be using.
At least one question is answered, whether to post this to Facebook or Twitter. Doesn’t matter now, it’ll autopost to Facebook for me.
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