My biggest excuse for using public services like Flickr or Youtube/Vimeo was because if I wanted to share pictures or a video with friends they didn’t need to belong on Facebook.  Now, it seems almost everyone I know is on Facebook and is utilizing their built-in social applications like photo tagging, videos, among others.  If the point of me putting my pictures on Flickr is to only share them with my friends and family, why not just import them into Facebook and immediately share to everyone and avoid the $25/year I pay to Flickr?  I guess you could say there are some bits of data out there I want to keep 100% public, but do the people that see it really care?

Another thing to think about is what happens in 1 or 2 years and Facebook may no longer be the behemoth it is right now.  Will I be able to export my data out?  Or is it stuck within Facebook’s platform forever and there’s nothing I can do to ever get it exported back to my computer?  This would be a scary situation.  But then again, all my digital media is in the cloud as of today anyway and not backed up locally.

Joel Atwood of Coding Horror fame makes a good point that he will never use private social networks because we have the best social network right in front of us: the Internet.

In my honest opinion I think the point of what a social network is for, is to be social.  If all of my friends and family are on that network, it only makes sense to be social with my digital media within that network between them.

But for some reason I feel like I’m going against my conscious.

Here is a video from the day I got my new iPhone with DJ Clint playing at Lush in Fresno, which takes place at the Starline in Tower District.

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Expect more to come, not just of House music but any of the music related events we attend in the Fresno area and abroad.