This new year I resolved to be done with Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. I had abandoned Twitter a long time ago, Reddit was easy as I was never really invested in that platform anyways, and then most recently leaving Facebook behind.

It needs a little characterization. I haven’t deleted my Facebook account, but what I have done is ceased to engage on that platform. I still do check in once a week just to mop up my timeline recommendations from people putting my name on their posts and otherwise just establishing a heartbeat there so that the people who are on the service and follow me notice that I still live. I suppose that eventually even bothering with the heartbeat updates will grow tiresome and I’ll give up on that as well.

I have instead moved my entire social networking existence to a new service called Imzy. It’s at imzy.com, and I encourage everyone to join me there. There are some pretty good AUP rules in place and communities can also have extended rules, building off the core AUP of the site itself. Imzy is a perfect place to have real discussions with people online. There is a culture in Imzy which I haven’t found anywhere else. It’s this lack of trolling that I witnessed and it’s what led me to dump Facebook.

I don’t know what this means for this blog. Imzy is a great platform all on its own, and when it comes to blogging, my user community has a lot of features that my blog can’t meet. The sense of community I think is what is missing from a lot of services, and my blog. This service is mostly just a billboard for me to yell at the darkness. There aren’t any real conversations going on here, unlike in Imzy.

I figure if I don’t post more blog entries I may just archive all of this stuff and shutter the service completely. Then again, I may just be lazy and let this blog long-tail it to eternity. Only time will tell.