Friday, June 07, 2013

Social Tedium

It's been ages (again) since we've last looked to Blogger. What with all the various forms of social media and the fact that typing on a mobile device is no walk in the park (we're using the iPad for this as we don't think our thumbs are ready to type out a full post...but then again what is a full post), we've pretty much left this blog like a diary stuck in a drawer in the attic.

While posting on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is far quicker and easier, well...it's certainly not a great way to remember things that happen.

Navigate Facebook's timeline? Very much dependant on our Internet connection, as if we're trying to search for something that happened vaguely in the second or third quarter of either 2010 or 2009, we'd have to click on the month and start scrolling down to the older posts (and hope that our connection doesn't drop and stop Facebook from further loading old posts).

Let's not even bother looking for old stuff on Twitter.

OK we've actually stopped typing out this post on the iPad, and have actually switched over to typing on the PC because why the hell are we using the iPad to do this when we have a proper keyboard to hammer on in the first place, we have no idea. Probably to prevent ourself from going on a typing diarrhoea.

So. If we're going to maintain this blog, shall we further integrate it with the rest of our social media? We can just imagine it now, using a photo post as an example:
1. Take photo.
2. Edit as necessary using Instagram.
3. Type out quick post, add in whatever hashtags as we see fit.
4. Copy text of said post.
5. Get Instagram to post to Facebook, and probably Tumblr.
6. Go to either our Photos or the Twitter app, and draft same post. Edit text to fit 160 character limitation if necessary. Post.
7. Go to the Google+ app, repeat process.
8. Go to the Blogger app, repeat process. Elaborate text as we see fit.

Facepalm. But we think what we'll do is to wait for the new iPad Mini, then get a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for that...that is, if we still blog by the time the new iPad Mini launches.

1 comment:

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