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Where I am on the web these days:

Still posting like dokken to Twitter, but find myself warming to Google+ as well. In many ways it does everything that LiveJournal was doing a decade ago, but with a far friendlier UI. Most everyone I know seems to be piling on in, too. It seems the best candidate for carrying LJ's torch forward.

Here's me on Google+. Feel free to encircle me as you will.

I have all but abandoned my Facebook account, and am likely to delete it later this year. I actively dislike Facebook for a number of reasons, privacy perhaps the least of them -- I find their attitude towards both their users and the rest of the internet cynical, exploitative and exasperating. Even if we don't wish to hang a halo on Google, their own new social network has already demonstrated their willingness and ability to be far better than Facebook in all these ways. I believe they want to deliver a service that's attractive and good for both Google and their users, and not just themselves.

I discovered last month that I created a tumblr four years ago and forgot about it. I started warming to it again, going so far as to make a long, experimental post to it. But with Google+ on the scene, I'll probably let it lie fallow again.

Comments

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I have a very hard time trusting Google more than Facebook with privacy when they touch so very many things. Facebook's head people may be outwardly more hostile to privacy, but Facebook is really only a social networking tool. Google wants to be the internet - and their "no pseudonyms" rule is actively hostile to privacy - and personal security, for some folks.

I'll add you to my (often unread) Twitter stream, but I feel about as secure using Googleware as I would changing my citizenship to a an Eastern Bloc country back during the worst of the Cold War.