As I read Open Thread: Social Web & Its Challenges, I realized how ridiculously fragmented and ugly my own online identity has become. Twitter accounts, MySpace, Facebook, OpenID, banking, shopping, noise and clutter and ugh! Dameon Welch-Abernathy wrote (in response to Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate):
Companies are building services atop services without a proven business model. Has anyone taken a step back and realized just how crazy this is? – see quote and context
Exactly. There’s this whole meta-social-app concept that nobody really discusses. I don’t believe it’s fragile, but it is so very, very complicated. And complication is such a bad and terrible thing, particularly with regard to maintaining an online presence. I’m not saying I want all of my eggs in one basket: I’m not looking for MyFaceTwitter.com or anything of that sort, and I’m certainly not suggesting another aggregate tool for my varied aggregations (Rediggitdotmodo?). But it certainly feels… I don’t know, trashy? Messy? Ugly? Nasty?
Yeah. Most certainly.
Thoughts?
