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user-inactivated  ·  4247 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social seems broken

What I'm tired of is services that are trying to be all-in-one solutions to the everyday internet. Although I love and am currently tied into Google's services, I hate that they are trying to force me to use them for all social, communication, photos, search, maps, Google Play etc etc etc. Many of their services are absolutely great, but they're trying to pigeonhole everybody into using their services and no others. Microsoft, Facebook are the exact same way. I wish there was a standard for email clients to be able to do voice/video calls (so all email services were able to communicate via text, sound, & video) so email alone could become the standard communication medium, and no one was tied into any one service.

Honestly I'm getting pretty jaded on classic social networking (FB, Twitter, G+) sites, all I really like anymore are social news sites (Hubski, HN, and some reddit) and blogs. That's all the social I really need.