07 May
Posted by Ted Eytan as Opinion
Tags: blog for every patient , facebook , LinkedIn , Web2.0
Popularity: 38%
See: The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits. The number of active users has declined 27 % since January. Early adopters are leading the pack out.
I deactivated in December, 2007 (See: “I deactivated my Facebook Account, is LinkedIn Next?“), reactivated for a few days earlier this year, and then deactivated again. For good.
I did cancel my LinkedIn account, too. As I discussed in a post about it, if everyone has their own blog and RSS feed we can just communicate through those.
And I still think every patient should have a blog that their physician has access too through the electronic health record.
3 Responses
e-Patient Dave
May 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
1New buzzword: Early de-dopter.
Alex Sicre
May 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
2Many of my friends hate Facebook and see no use for it. I think the apps are horrible (except for a few), but the one thing I like about Facebook and LinkedIn is the randomness to it all. By joining I’m Too Young For This!’s Facebook page, someone contacted me from New Haven - when I didn’t even know about that person, nor would have known how to find her. Same with LinkedIn - a high school acquaintance saw I was a member of an alumni group and messaged me. I’m sure for the last 10 years he hadn’t thought about me, but since he saw my name, and saw that I have a restaurant in Westport (a town that he goes to twice a year to see his brother), he thought he would reach out.
I have a blog for medication non-adherence, a restaurant blog, and personal blog - but none have generated as much contact as my social networking profiles.
I am by no means an advocate of them and only joined in the last year, but I do occasionally use them. If I had been affected by Beacon, though, I would have deleted my account - and still might if Facebook tries to monetize me!
Ted Eytan
May 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
3Alex - you must be an early de-adopter, too :). Can you share your medication non-adherence blog?
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