the 2009 purge

I have to hand it to social not-working devs. they always seem to try to come-up with new ways of doing the same things as the popular sites. the problem with that is that they never really live up to the expectation set by those popular sites. what is worse, even popular sites that do not improve with the times can fall victim to the effect. eventually, as quickly as things grow, they decline. pownce, jaiku and others fade into oblivion.
I am one to try just about anything. eventually, though, I get overhelmed by the numbers or bored by the offering. to that end, purged a number of links I felt were not offering me much of anything. Friendfeed, hi5, myspace, tumblr, livejournal accounts were all canceled in the last fortnight, along with the accounts of a number of smaller services. I never connected at myspace like I do at facebook; I connected even less at hi5, which seemed predominantly hispanics; I connected even less with friendfeed; livejournal and tumblr were repeats of this blog or twitter, which seemed a waste. Most of the smaller twitter wannabes just never cut it. What profiles I could not close, I simply walked away from. tagged made the cut, since there is some interaction. plurk made the cut, just barely, for the same reason. Both socialvibe and realjock have purpose beyond social not-working. the hookup sites entice me, yet scare me still. all in all, the purge was good, since I know predominantly focus on two site, facebook and twitter. I am even using twitter clients Syinx on Mac and PockeTwit on Blackjack. I will be less enticed to try the new service when the old seems to do the trick.