Social Media InJoins – What’s Going On?

Posted Friday Jan 04 2008 | Anne Haynes | Social Media |

I check my email daily, but in the last week things are different. On top of all my male driven spam emails (I’m a female), I’ve found several Plaxo connections invites. I’m sure I’ve missed some breaking news, but seriously, are we all chasing the social media status on the web? Just like “keeping up with the Jone’s” but now in a virtual world.

My main social media sites have been linkedin and myspace, but Plaxo and Facebook are taking off, so I keep up with the social media InJoins or Internet Joins (InJoins) and roll with the people I’ve known in my career.

I understand the Facebook inclusions because of the 2008 elections, but Plaxo. I placed this service off to just another tool until I logged into it tonight and found 18 requests for connection. In an effort to confirm that I’m not clueless, I did some Google searches and found – I’m a little clueless:

Facebook Welcomes Back Scoble

Social network site Plaxo considers sale –reports

Facebook Invited To Join The DataPortability Work Group

I remembered my Facebook password from 4 years ago – it felt good! But what is all this hype about? Consolidation, consolidation, consolidation = Mergers and Acquisitions! The social media gurus out there can’t expect everyone to be everything on every service! I’m tired of my account information sitting on a spreadsheet – I’m ready for the “Protected Cloud”; this one place where all my InJoins information details are stored and it forces me to change my password across a series of accounts in intervals. Google be my Cloud – ok or maybe Amazon.

Things are changing and shifting and it looks like the shaking of hands still needs to happen within the social media industry or maybe just in search? I want all the benefits from choosing my topic of choice before I search the web. I don’t want to go broad and filter through a bunch of invalid data. I also, don’t want a search engine to tell me what I want to search on based on the check boxes I select or my email inbox.

If I want to build a fence in my backyard, I’d rather go to the “home improvement search engine” than go to homedepot.com.

Are you sick of logging into several services? Please tell me more!

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3 Responses to “Social Media InJoins – What’s Going On?”

  1. on Jan 08, 2008 at 9:20 pm   David Temple

    LinkedIn and Facebook are about all I can handle thank you very much. So how about an invite? lol

  2. on Jan 08, 2008 at 9:40 pm   ahaynes

    David Temple – you are killing me! I did add you to my contacts on bloglog tonight! Have you visited Naymz.com? I can add you there as well! Expect an InJoin from me on Linkedin and Facebook!

    Cheers!
    Anne-

  3. on Jan 14, 2008 at 11:37 pm   Don Bresina

    Good article. I ran across it doing exactly what you are discussing… trying to keep up with all of the networking stuff. In fact, I got here (to your blog) through a recent Naymz invitation.

    I will read more of your blog and pass along my thoughts… assuming I have any ;)

    Peace.

    Don

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