People can now sync their flickr photos with their Facebook wall. Anytime you post something to flickr, it’ll also post to your Facebook account. Sounds great, right? But what if I already look at people’s photos on flickr? Now i’m going to see their photos twice. This is going to get annoying fast. It’s much like people who have their tweets auto-post to Google Buzz.
Look, I don’t need to see tweets duplicated on Buzz.
I don’t need to see flickr photos duplicated on Facebook.
It’s nice to distribute your work everywhere. But when the platform doesn’t allow me to turn off the double-posting, it’s a waste of time. If someone starts posting all their flickr photos automatically to Facebook, I might just have to hide that person.
HERE’S WHAT FACEBOOK NEEDS TO DO: I want the granular option to hide specific sorts of content from specific people. If someone posts their flickr photos to facebook, I want to hide the notifications of just their flickr photos. Flickr has a great interface. I don’t need to go through Facebook to look at people’s photos.
HERE’S WHAT GOOGLE BUZZ NEEDS TO DO: There should be an option to hide people’s tweets. Right now if someone posts their tweets to Buzz I just don’t follow the person. But if I could just hide their tweets, I’d happily refollow them.
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Once we start getting all these granular controls, it’s gonna get confusing to keep track of what I’m blocking where. Eventually everything needs to come together into ONE MAIN CONTROL PANEL for ALL the social media services. It would enable me to control what I see across ALL social media.
Instead right now it’s just huge data dumps being unloaded on us in all these different platforms. I don’t need to see the XKCD comic strip in 10 tumblr accounts and 5 facebook profiles.