social media cheat sheet
I tweeted a friend’s WSJ post, and he asked me why the update didn’t show up on my Facebook status. Damn, I was afraid someone would ask me that someday. The reason is that I use extremely precise and entirely idiosyncratic rules for how I publish personal social media. Here is a cheat sheet:
| social site | receives from | publishes to | primary purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| FriendFeed | no external publishing | for both personal and professional contacts to get mostly personal updates from me | |
| no external sources | FriendFeed | for me to broadcast updates to contacts as well as strangers | |
| ginsudo blog | Flickr | FriendFeed, LinkedIn | open publication of longer form pieces, often for blatant self-promotion |
| ginsudo blog | no external publishing | distributes professional info only, to professional contacts only | |
| Flickr | no external sources | Facebook, FriendFeed, ginsudo blog | photo sharing for contacts and strangers |
| FriendFeed | Twitter, Flickr, ginsudo blog | Facebook (thru FF app) | for social media junkies to get as much public me as there is, without much personal detail |
| Google profile | no external sources | open publication | in case someone Googling me searches for “gene yoon” instead of “ginsu yoon” |
| Picasa | Picasa desktop | private links only | photo sharing for family and friends |
| private blog | no external sources | no open publication | therapy notes, homemade platitudes, risqué pictures, cartoons, country music lyrics |
To the untrained eye, this may seem somewhat insane – that’s ridiculous, it’s completely insane.
Updated 29 Apr 2010: Finally decided what I wanted to do since Facebook acquired FriendFeed. Going to hook up blog, Flickr and Twitter directly to Facebook, disconnect FriendFeed app from Facebook. This means that the things that I previously shared to siloed audiences, I now share to all audiences, and I share them through Facebook as a central sharing point. Which of course, is exactly what Facebook wanted from the FriendFeed acquisition.
I like the quadrant view for personal vs. business applications. The NextMark Social Media Cheat Sheet also has links to most all of the BtoB tools.
Chris DeMartine
22 Jun 2009 at 06:02
[...] service become less attractive to a mass audience? (I’m certainly going to have to rethink my social media use.) Maybe it’s only folks like the 250 that believe that everyone wants to share everything [...]
hey facefeed, let’s just be friends « ginsudo
10 Aug 2009 at 18:21