The Wave is behind me

[captain_slinky]

I've been watching the steadily increasing tie of friends over on Facebook complain about the new batch of forced changes and how THIS time they're REALLY going to leave Facebook FOR GOOD because this is just TERRIBLE and HOW DARE THEY and all sorts of other threats that they made the last 5 times Facebook made changes. They're not going to leave... they're going to complain about the changes, they're going to go set up a Google+/Tumblr/Linkedin/Myspace account and then tell everybody how AWESOME it is over there and how everybody should join them over there because Facebook totally sucks... and then they'll abandon those accounts to come back to Facebook because it's so lonely over on that other site.

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[greenpear.livejournal.com]

I'm not moving from here. I don't have the energy to make a move somewhere else. I keep my Facebook account but don't do anything other than read stuff.

[aurora77]

I'm getting really annoyed by all the fragments of friends. Facebook, Twitter, LJ, Dreamwidth, Blogspot, Google Plus, and a slew of other places I won't bother to mention. No one place is popular enough to be a clear winner, and keeping up with everybody requires me to be everywhere and hunt people down in disparate locations by different email addresses and usernames...

I'm frustrated. I wish there was a better solution.

*grumps in a corner*

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Well wait a minute... we're the Innovators. aren't we? The Developers! We're the people who built this darned Internet! We're EFFIN' BRILLIANT! We can make this work!

What we need is a site that can aggregate all those other sites, turn them in to a live feed and respond to each one in kind. Like... remember back in the days of IM, and everybody had a different client like the AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger... there was one program, and I forgot the name of it, but it allowed you to tie all those messenger acounts together in to one desktop widgety thingee. So what *we* need to make our gajillion dollars on is a single social media website that allows you to import all your Tweets, Blogs, Status Updates and other communications from all those other sites and allow you to reply directly in the chosen format. Back in the OLD DAYS, when I last did any type of HTML, I'd suggest a simple setup using frames, but I know that those aren't really used any more...

[aurora77]

I know this type of comment shows there's a huge opportunity for somebody to come in and make something special. I don't really have any good solutions though, and even if I did, the types of systems I know how to develop on are not good for this sort of situation, not to mention that licensing is prohibitively expensive.

So I'll sit here and sulk in the corner and miss at least half of what my friends are doing online until a better solution arrives.