Social networking in the tens and teens

Dork Tower on LJ.  Amusing because creator John Kovalik is actually still a regular LJ poster.

It is something I've been noticing though.  My LJ friends list seems to have a lot more of the communities than actual friends, and it can be many hours before I see an update from anyone.  5 years ago I had to refresh my friends page several times a day. 

These days we're just spreading quick thoughts.  We use Facebook and Twitter.  Neither of them lend themselves to deep thoughtful discussion.  Twitter often involves links to interesting blogs but there's no way to say anything that doesn't fit into 140 characters including the link.  Facebook allows comments, but don't lend itself to deep discussion.  It'snot even threaded.  There's no room for debate.  Blogs have a list of comments.  It's hard to address a previous comment

Even the social news websites with a decent comment section have their problems.  Digg (unless they've changed it sine I was last there) only has one level of nesting. reddit is a bit better but the default behaviour of sort most popular makes it into an echo chamber, and also means the silly funny comments rise to the top way more than the interesting ones.

So, I'm still here.  LJ will live until something better comes along. 

edit: Changed to link to the actual comic since muskrat_john asked so nicely.

More work stuff. Suddenly everyone wants to talk

Interview with Sony.  Went quite well.  Not sure if I want a 12 month contract in Belgium

Still no response from MS.

Had a text offering 5 month contract from Imagination (London company I worked for before).  Would prefer to get the MS gig, but a bird in the hand...

Call from another agent.

And today's happy thought:

It's pancake day! 
*sings the pancake day song*

It's a fantastic celebration.  You just need pancakes.  They're easy to make.  No romantic expectations.  No tricky finding of the perfect gift.  Just Crepes!