all do most, none do all.

I think what annoys me most about social networking site is that theres just too damn many of them. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, DeviantArt, all these blog sites and every forum everywhere and even e-mail clients to an extent... all are very robust with new features added to keep up with the competition to the point where the differences between them begin to break down. Facebook's serious Twitter-Envy comes to mind.

All of these sites now are so similar that one starts to wonder why you would need more than one of them. Why have a blog, a DeviantArt, AND a MySpace? If you draw an illustration to go with your anime-porn fanfiction, do you have to put it up on all three sites? And Again, why Facebook AND Twitter? If you come up with a clever observation or wittisism, or a link you want to share, you have to post it to both sites! Not to mention the many different usernames, profiles, and friends lists that go with each one. Oh, and they almost all h ave IM clients built in too. The combinations of repetition are many.

Now, I know some of the savier sites have implemented some degree of integration. You can set up tweets and blog posts to appear automatically on facebook, and all that such nonsense. (speaking of which, does somebody want to help me out in setting that up?) But what about your friends who don't have both? AND if I make all my posts and updates on site A and have them automatically updated on sites B and C as well, how do I receive feedback from my friends who only have sites B and C? You need to go through the motions at every site if you want to stay up to date.

Why, then, do we not just dump all but one or two of the sites and stick to using them? Because despite all the similarities and interconnectedness, they are all just different enough to warrant keeping them around for SOME miniscule feature that the other sites don't have. Facebook gives you all the networking you might want, but won't let you have an ugly background or shitty music playing on your page. You COULD post your art on a blog, but then only your friends can see it, and how will your furry-inflation-incest Jonas Brothers/Naruto crossover art get the attention and praise it deserves then?

Fuck, Im getting tired of this rant. Im gonna call it quits for now...I have to go post this to facebook.