Social Not-working

[cdave]

When reading this type of social network I:
Damn. The second Livejournal Option should read Facebook
[Poll #1403278]

Comments

[flick.livejournal.com]

Where, for LJ and other blogs, "I read everything" = "I scroll through everything and read what catches my eye", and for forums, "I read a filtered list" = "I read posts with interesting subject lines", and for fanzines, "I read a filtered list" = "I read the ones that I get paper copies of"....

[cdave]

I'm updating my fanzine answer to match yours.

Big problem I have is that I want to read everything (at least topic headings on forums) and would rather not read a forum than read an interesting topic, but not be able to keep up with it. I miss out on some active communities because of that.

[andrewducker]

I have about 8 filters for LJ. Some of them I read religiously, and catch up on every post. Others are skim-read, and I don't read back to catch up.

[cdave]

I have 4 or 5 not quite mutually exclusive filters for LJ, and when working with a big backlog do it by filter, but still try to read all.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I can't fill that in, it's too different from what I do. Plus you have lj in there twice.

LJ: Try to read everything, try hard to catch up on everything.

Twitter: Try to read everything, try not-so-hard to catch up.
Blogs, mailing lists, newsgroups: Dip in when I have time. If captivated, read back on earlier stuff for certain areas (eg a blog's archive, or an entire newsgroup thread).

LJ clones: Have one account on dreamwidth, haven't worked out what to do with it, have read nothing.

Fanzines: Stuff comes through the door, I try to read most of it and fail miserably.

Forums: Depends entirely on the specific forum. Always read everything on larp related Mirrorstone, dip into others ad-hoc depending on how much time I have to kill.

General RSS feeds: Subscribe to about 20 feeds. Occasionally go in and read some of it. Generally forget to open the feed reader and don't have time for it.

[cdave]

link to link to my RSS reader.

More than 20 there!

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I skim a lot of stuff but my reading is very ad-hoc. For Twitter, I sometimes have a day where I use it intensively, mostly have days where I just look for/respond to direct messages/replies and maybe make a couple of comments; and often have days where I don't bother opening it at all. So I put the last option, but it's not quite right.

[cdave]

That sounds like "I read everything, and do not go back to missed posts."

When you do read twitter, you read whatever is at the top. If you come back after missing a couple of days you don't go back.

Which is exactly what I do.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

But it's not "everything", then, is it? Because for me, "everything" would sort of imply that I read more than the 5 latest messages that appear on my TweetDeck. Most of which are usually from Jonathan bloody Ross.

[cdave]

Bugger. Really could have made it clearer in that case. I was just trying to bash this poll out quickly as I'm not even really reading LJ this week.

Question should have read something like:
"When I read this type of social network I normally (part 1) and if I have to miss a couple of days I (part 2)."

E.g. When I read Twitter I normally (read everyone that I follow) and if I have to miss a couple of days I (only catch up on a specific subset of the people I follow).

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I'm just terribly lax with keeping up. I miss all sorts of things. Weddings. Deaths. Oops.

[cdave]

I make a special effort to keep up with the "Oops".

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Since most of the Oops are my own, I don't need to read LJ to feel the effects. ;)