The advent of Google’s Buzz reheated the cross-posting debate. Should a user fuse all his/her online activity through a single service or not? Is it a matter of convenience or another way to prove the multitude of our web presence? Or we just do not yield enough content to support the growing list of the services we join?
What do you think? I, for example, prefer cross-posting as a tool to promote my new blog posts. Though, I opted not to pull my Twitter feed into Buzz, while I try to select cautiously which Foursquare check-ins I share with my Twitter followers or Facebook friends. Besides, why do we really join a new service? Just to learn how to use it or due to the overwhelming hype? Should we be using new services because we find them useful for some reason? Could our activity in a new service turn into a representation of another layer of our interests? Should there be a limit of joining and adoption?
On the other hand, I am wondering: could this debate persuade us to re-think how we use social media and why? Could this make us better users? Even if there is no social media manual, users learn how to navigate through the new online sea of logins and make the best out of this experience. Of course, we all do mistakes, but in the end we all learn. So, what have you learned so far?
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