I’m trying to formulate a sensible strategy to overhaul my net presence. The rough plan so far:
- Change my 12-year-old email address that is on every spammer’s short list
- Extract friends’ contact info from Facebook
- Delete Facebook account.
- Import FB contacts into Google & Mac
- Redirect facebook friends to current tech blog (aijazansari.com) and new personal blog.
- Find out if FB friends can subscribe to an RSS feed of my blog somehow (doesn’t seem possible any more)
- Pick up the phone and actually talk to friends more often.
The goal’s pretty obvious - I want to reclaim my data. I think I own my relationships, not FB, not Twitter, and not Google+. So far, G+ may be the most accommodating network out there - if I can export my G+ presence as easily as I can export my G+ contacts, we might have a good candidate here.
If you have any ideas or comments or experience with this, please let me know.
I’ll keep you posted.
Update 2012/06/30
Like so many of you, I’ve given up on Google+. Most of the people I wanted to communicate with never made the switch. In the end, having those lines of communication open with my friends was more important than the platform. G+ has been dismissively called a “Ghost Town,” and in my case, at least, that wasn’t too far from the truth.