That's when I left twitter as well.Twitter for example died for me when they started filtering out conversations of people who I followed had with people I didn't follow. Right from this day the whole concept of finding new interesting people and conversations went to shit because I wasn't able to see beyond the horizon of my followings. I started to follow more people but didn't find more conversations, only more shouts about what people are doing right now, which I wasn't really interested in.
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.
I think that is the crux of the issue. People want tools more than they want an experience. In fact, IMO that has a lot to do with Google's success. They build tools to solve problems that people have. From the beginning, I was wary that Google+ would mean the death of this aspect of Google; I'm not sure if it will be the case or not. They walk a fine line with the Google Account. Facebook doesn't seem like a place that addresses needs that I have, and since they went public, I think they have grown only more concerned about revenue. Google has had some success keeping shareholders off of their backs in terms of management style, but I think that's only because they have gobs of money that gives them the freedom to experiment.What I'm tired of is services that are trying to be all-in-one solutions to the everyday internet.