Hey folks, Our Man's bleeding edge, doncha know. Not only has he recently discovered Delicious.com where he can have his very own virtual library, but he just went and got himself co-opted into the Google Wave machine. ? you might well be thinking. Well, Our Man isn't sure (as usual) but he reckons it is Google's latest plan to take over the world. It seems to be Facebook on steroids. You can chat and post videos and such with your contacts, but all in real time.
Hmmm.
While Our Man can't work out all the permutations, he realised how few real friends he has, and the prospect of sharing a Wave with folk he barely knows, made him feel kind of, well, too old for this game. Still, surf on you early adopters, no doubt Our Man will rejoin the wave when it has become comfortably old hat.
BTW, what's with the super-duper re-tweet button on Twitter? It doesn't retweet the tweet on your own feed and doesn't allow you to comment on the re-tweet, which is half the fun. EDITED FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE - Just found the re-tweet does appear on your own feed, just an hour after you've retweeted it.
BTW 2.0: If none of this post has made the slightest bit of sense to you, Our Man congratulates you. You pass.
Wave pic lifted from here.
5 comments:
I received a Google Wave invitation yesterday and so far it seems like a whole lot of nothing. Mostly because I, too, seem to have pathetically few real-life people living in my computer. And secondly, because I just don't get it. I'm sure it's wonderful for people who can capitalize on the options for business and such, but for now, mine will probably just collect virtual dust until I decide I care about it.
Recently I find myself to be increasingly concerned by the amount of time online activities are eating up.
As my list of favourite news sites, online journals, forums, blogs and mountain of RSS feeds grows I have ever less time for reading actual printed matter, watching films, cooking, talking with friends and family etc.
And as for Twitter and Facebook...
I'm seriously starting to consider cutting back on the whole thing. But then, here I am posting a comment...
Too late already?
I was curious to hear about Wave, and I agree that it seems to be a whole lot of nothing. But, I dare not look at it.
A friend of mine just sent me an invite to google wave yesterday. Awesome. Now I have a new account in which to email and message one friend who I hardly ever emailed or messaged before.
Yumeji is right. Too much social media is going to eat up everyone's free time. I love my iPhone but it gives me way too much internet access during my day.
There is something to be said for knowing when to turn off, though what that something is, Our Always Online Man wouldn't know.
Recently, he too is getting fatigued, but as long as there is nothing decent on telly and Our Man has no real mates, he'll keep killing time online.
Oh wow, I just got into Google Wave yesterday as well. We should totally, like, wave at each other. Or something. (I don't know what it does either.)
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