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In the grand tradition of Stephen Colbert, I will now list out social networks and services which are “On Notice” and “Dead to Me”:

On Notice:

Facebook: I’ve had it up to here with your zombies and your vampires and your movie quizzes. What if I don’t WANT to be a pirate? Ever think about that? Still on the list, since too many of my friends are on it.
Dodgeball: Your locate function stinks, and your syntax is old. Still on the list, since it’s still somewhat useful. But not for very long.
Pownce: What ARE you? Twitter is better for quick thoughts. Tumblr is better for photos and video. Facebook and Upcoming are better for events. Pownce is good for… what, sharing the occasional music clip? A “discussion” thread? Not cutting it, man. Still on the list simply because of the music stuff.

Dead to Me:

MySpace: Need I say more?

To be honest, the only real social networks I really check up on are Twitter and Flickr. I check Facebook every once in awhile because so many people are on it, but even then I find the Facebook experience way too complicated (If I get another Add-this-Application Request I’m going to hurt someone). I almost never check Pownce these days (In a lot of ways, Tumblr is better). Jaiku‘s just kinda dead to me.

This is why more social networks need to be niche focused. Like just on movies, or music, or something like that. Last.FM seems to be doing fine, for example. And Ben Brown’s new I Want to See That seems great for movies. But other than that… meh.

Stop making me feel jaded, Web 2.0!!