Me too. (Thanks to Mr Carmo)

I’m not a twitter user myself, I find the noise too much to cope with, but Mr Wilson’s comments on the balance between informing and spamming a carefully built selection of readers are sharp and incisive. I also think they are generally applicable to any scenario of building a readership, whether that be a national newspaper (balancing the content/advertising ratio and the cover-price), a blog (ratio of advertising space to content space) as well as Twitter.

Evidently, even after being online and publishing for a long time, new tools and techniques are still giving us pause for thought on the same subjects, as Mr Wilson said:

I thought I had it figured out pretty well but now as new services pop up that include the social (and viral) element of spamming your followers, I am facing some new questions.

Like Mr Carmo, I have been becoming more and more frustrated with the sheer amount of noise there is online and I am struggling along with the rest of the interverse to swim the stream without feeling like I’m drowning.

I have gone a little further by deleting my twitter account, and I have always had a rule of friends on Facebook, colleagues on LinkedIn and with only two exceptions, it stays that way.

Evidently I am somewhat younger (or just more juvenile) than Mr Carmo though, as I have decided to set up my own photo gallery on my own infrastructure rather than use other services like Facebook with questionable retention policies, or Flickr where a subscription is required for decent functionality.