What is your main, "this is me" site? May21 '08

I posed the question on Twitter and Pownce, but I'll ask it again here.

On many social network sites, you are allowed to edit your profile and include relevant links to other sites about you. Here you'd include links to your Flickr account, Facebook, etc.

Some social networks allow you to include many links, but on some you can only post a single URL.

In these situations, which URL do you pick? What is your main, "this is me" site? What site best depicts who you are?

Some would say Facebook is their "home," others their personal blog.

I tend to use my personal blog as my "base" page about me. Lately, though, I've started just pointing people to my Twitter page, since it contains more frequent updates and is not just centered around my interest in technology.

URL friendliness

It also depends on the "friendliness" of the URL. For example, Facebook URL's are ugly. Here is the link to my Facebook profile:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=711582259

What can anyone decipher from that URL? Nothing. The system understands that, but human beings can't.

Take, instead, my Twitter page:

http://twitter.com/Matthom

This is much cleaner and more descriptive.

Flickr is even more descriptive:

http://flickr.com/photos/matthom/

For people who have no idea what Flickr is, they'll still gather some context just by seeing the word "photos."

Categories: Links , Questions , Sites , Usability

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matthom is published and produced by Matt Thommes - an independent publishing enthusiast, mobile blogger, content creator, informative writer, web developer from Chicago. Never one to conform, Matt intends to promote the effect the web has on our lives, in an effort to intensify, instruct, and clarify all that is happening around us.

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