It seems to me that this sort of thing is just another way that we are letting personal technology take over and dictate the directions of our lives. We now feel compelled to address social issues that didn’t even exist five years ago. Where will it end?

With me, it ended over the past month, when I began ignoring social networking completely. I feel much more free, and I wasn’t even into it that deeply.

Life’s too short, and most of it is none of your business anyway. How many of those casual friends would be useful in a pinch? Perhaps that handful are worth keeping. Perhaps some may feel that this sort of thing is necessary for business reasons. All I can say is that business survived without them for a long time.

This is what they said on twitter, “New beta code: pingofpings – letmeping will still work for all of you Pirillo fans.”

That is truly a great service. Damn I have been missing that. Both for myself and the band I am playing in. Because you spend a looooot of time updating not only personal websites / blogs, but also all the networks you simply have to be a part of. So great – and thanks for the beta code

I update all on ping.fm, and I have a friendfeed box on my iGoogle, also on my facebook, so I don’t have to go and log in to all those social networks to see what’s going on, friend feed just gets all that info for me, and like I said, I keep all my networks updated with ping.fm :D

Aren’t they both great?

The customer trigger is where it’s at! You can set up a custom trigger, name it #micro (or whatever you please) and specify your update to go to any social sites you assign to that custom trigger. In my case Twitter/Plurk/Jaiku.

Very clever service!

powerspec