Blarg's Beefs

I've had numerous accounts on these "online community" sites for a while now, and up until now it's kind of been a pain in the butt because each site is good for one thing, but not others, so I ended up logging in to all these sites to do everything I like to do. I would use meetin.org because I liked their events, match.com for online dating, myspace.com for fun profiles, blogger for blogging, and ofoto.com for posting pictures. But I would have to keep sending links from one site to the next because I'd want to point out my blog on one site, then tell people about new photos I uploaded on another site, then post funny stories on a third site. It all got to be a real pain in the butt.

Then I tried Yahoo! 360, and I realize that it ties everything together so nicely! Any photos I upload to Yahoo! Photos can be shared right on my profile page. My blog entries update right on my profile page, but I can also link to all of my blogger posts as RSS feeds right on my profile page. I can add reviews that people will be able to search on. I can create lists of things I like that people will be able to read easily, unlike most profiles where there's just a big textarea blob where people dump ten million things. I can link to Yahoo! Groups for social events, and even Yahoo! Personals so that people can a better feel for what type of person I am. And because so many people I know use Yahoo! Mail and IM, they're linked to me almost automatically.

It feels like Yahoo! 360 is the easiest out of all the personal sites out there for setting up a profile and really doing all the things that I like to do online. If you haven't tried it yourself, give it a shot.