Inside Out

Yesterday I tried to explain social media to a friend and ended up confusing everybody. Inspired by ProBloggers Social Media Love in I drew a chart, sorting out my social media services and their connections:

social media connections

To me that looks like a lot but whoever uses that stuff know that thats easy to handle. But I didn’t put everything in the chat. Just the stuff I use on a daily basis. There’s a Xing Account, Google Reader, Seesmic, nowpublic, neon where I sign in every now and then and about one million pages I signed up for and forgot about long ago.

Looking at this pic I get afraid of loops. A notification of a notification of a notification …

And yet I’m only using a tiny bit of the social media possibilities. Friendfeed offers to import 43 different services atm. Yeah I love new stuff, I love variety but somtimes I secretly dream about one service for everything and I mean everything. Well, I still only have one device ok two a computer at work and my laptop at home. But this might change soon. Anyone who bought a new iPhone and wants to get rid of the old one?

Ping me! You have about 20 channels to choose from, if you are lucky enough to have all my information:

1. skype
2. msn at work
3. ICQ at work
4. mobile phone china
5. mobile phone germany
6. phone at work
7. twitter (Herr_Bert)
8. stumpleupon
9. delicious
10. friendfeed (herrbert)
11. facebook
12. xing
13. youtube
14. flickr
15. gmail
16. gmx
17. E-Mail at work
18. librarything
19. private blog
20. company blog

I might have missed something but I think you got my point.