Poll : If you could only use one of your social networks which would it be?

Poll : If you could only use one of your social networks which would it be?

July 2nd, 2008 . by polygeek

What would you do without Facebook? Or, twitter, LinkedIn, etc.? Well, suppose you could use only one of them. Which would it be? ( vote over in the right sidebar )

There’s a good argument to be made for FriendFeed since it aggregates many of the most popular social sites. But it pretty much just gives you a snapshot of each so maybe it wouldn’t be the best option.

My choice would be twitter because I work from home and it’s pretty much all I have to replace water-cooler talk.

But my RSS reader – Google Reader – would be a close second. It’s not just a way for me to keep up with the latest news in the Adobe Flex/Actionscript world. It’s also a great way to keep tabs of my friends who blog.

Why don’t you vote and then comment your thoughts below?

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10 Responses to “Poll : If you could only use one of your social networks which would it be?”

comment number 1 by: doug

July 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Hmmm, that was tough because I don’t consider LinkedIn to be a social network, per se

comment number 2 by: polygeek

July 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm

@doug That’s a good point. We could probably start up a very long thread about just what is a social network anyways? I think LinkedIn qualifies. It’s certainly about networking. But a very specific type.

comment number 3 by: Nick Kwiatkowski

July 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm

I would have said Twitter, maybe three months ago, but given the recent reliability….

comment number 4 by: girlgeek

July 6th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

Twitter – it’s really the only one i have time for. :) I do facebook but I don’t really enjoy it. It’s more of a way to see what old friends are up to in a general way.

comment number 5 by: Jason The Saj

July 9th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

The one that I have the design in my head, waiting to be coded.

Maybe someday I’ll get the time to code it and alleviate the world of such evils as MySpace and Twitter.

comment number 6 by: savvas.malamas » Blog Archive » Saving {my} twitter..

July 11th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

[...] to use for??). From all of this apps my favorite is by far Twitter (just to answer on PolyGeek’s poll). That’s because I use it EVERY SINGLE DAY, it’s the 1st thing I do after I boot [...]

comment number 7 by: Harry B. Garland

July 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

LinkedIn is the only social network I use because unlike the others, it has clear business value to me. I don’t get the value of all those other things. Twitter is the most disconcerting of them all. I mean come on! “I’m eating a hot dog right now.” (Aren’t you glad you know that?)

comment number 8 by: polygeek

July 16th, 2008 at 5:58 am

@Harry, I think you underestimate the value of Twitter. Of course the majority of twits are of trivial value but sometimes it’s important news that you can use. And though it isn’t something to be abused the ability to ask a question and usually get a response is huge. I could go on, but I think I’ll twitter it instead. :-)

comment number 9 by: girlgeek

July 19th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

I am surprised to see face has such a large number of votes. It’s an incredible time waster/time suck. In my POV. What do folks like about it besides old friends finding you?

comment number 10 by: Tony Little

December 27th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

I think Friendevent (www.friend-event.com) is great, it lets me see what my friends are doinggg. they also got this sweeeet facebook app so i can use it from there.

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