Comments on: Open Thread: Where’s Your Online Home?

By: Lasse Rintakumpu

Lasse Rintakumpu — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:59:05 +0000

Shame to admit it, but definitely Facebook. Once upon time it was LinkedIn, but that was bit hard to sell to my less business-oriented friends.

Facebook has its flaws. For example you have to keep constantly ignoring all kinds of stupid requests from your friends. And I’m not even mentioning privacy here.

But Facebook works as a great social hub. The Events application rocks by making it easy to see who is going and where and when. Plus the whole thing eases making closer contact with your acquaintances in meatspace. That’s the added value.

The real value, however is that it’s widely used, known AND it’s easy to integrate your other networks into it.

Twitter, Flickr and Amazon.com are far more important for me than Facebook, but as these are mostly obscure services (save Amazon) for most of my friends, Facebook works as a great mediator.

By: chris b

chris b — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:36:18 +0000

I keep coming back to Livejournal. Even though I’ve never met most of my LJ ‘friends’, I find LJ to have a strong sense of community and mutual support. If there is any truth on the adage “A problem shared is a problem halved”, then LJ is the place to do it.

By: dc crowley

dc crowley — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:34:21 +0000

It’s funny but I guess Jaiku is my home. But I rarely log in. I have a lifestream there, anything I do… video, photos, blogging, twitter, seesmic; It all ends up in Jaiku… er! except Facebook (which I love by the way). But that is Facebooks very worst point, everything in… nothing out!

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:12:00 +0000

All about LinkedIn. I’ve reconnected with many old friends from highschool and college b/c of this tool. It has also become a new source of leads for my communications company.

By: Greg Rollett

Greg Rollett — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:25:49 +0000

I work a lot in music and concert promotion so Myspace is still king in that ring, but on a professional note Facebook and Twitter control most of my time. (Even though the Google Reader is open all day).

By: Christopher Johnston

Christopher Johnston — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:43:00 +0000

I spend most of my time on Twitter using my phone to send and receive messages. Second is probably Facebook and then LinkedIn. At least weekly I use Flickr, Marzar, Ecademy, and a few of the communities at CollectiveX. A few times a month I might visit Ning, Pownce, and Jaiku. I don’t really enjoy Digg even though I have an account and I’ve been trying to get a Seesmic invite for weeks now.

By: Blue_Chi

Blue_Chi — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:29:16 +0000

My blogs and Facebook.

By: Morgan Sully

Morgan Sully — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:45:27 +0000

I of course use all the popular ones, but I must say that the one I feel the strongest sense of community on is pomoworld.com I was personally welcomed by the community ambassador, there are hot people and they’ve all got some really interesting stuff to say. The forums have seriously meaningful stuff to say about our personal experience of life, each other and our potential as human beings. Maybe a bit heady for the tech-oriented audience if this site, but a refreshing space nonetheless in the deluge of social networking sites these days. It’s also built on Ning for you tech-curious folk reading this.

By: Dung Nguyen

Dung Nguyen — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:52:04 +0000

Facebook and twitter :)

By: junger

junger — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:21:42 +0000

LinkedIn … StatCounter … my blogs

By: Mari Mann

Mari Mann — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:18:27 +0000

http://www.avanoo.com, Flickr, and my blogs.

By: Nick Scheurich

Nick Scheurich — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:30:36 +0000

I'd have to say that my primary social networking tool is Facebook. My reason is—quite simply—that most of my friends can be found there and nowhere else (except for MySpace... but it pains me to even utter that name). I also heavily rely on my Twitter account for keeping everyone up-to-date on my goings-on; I even use it to update my Facebook status. And of course, for keeping friends and family updated in a visual way, there's always my home on Flickr.

By: Anthony Russo

Anthony Russo — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:31:44 +0000

LinkedIn and more recently Expert-Exchange.com

Anthony

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:05:47 +0000

Facebook. I and all of my college friends have been using it since before Facebook opened it up to non-students. Facebook is largely an umbrella of smaller more exclusive social networks (e.g. individual universities) where people actually know each other in the “real” world. I like that.

By: Y! Fanboy

Y! Fanboy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:21:29 +0000

Flickr, Del.icio.us, jumpcut … and my own blog(s) :-)

By: David Fauber

David Fauber — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:42:16 +0000

Embarrassing to say, but mine is still somethingawful.com