November 15, 2007
Time to quit facebook again
I'm sick of facebook again. I think I might quit this time for good. The last time I was this disgusted was when the mini-feeds popped up. This I think facebook just dug its own grave with facebook apps.
First off let me say the biggest reason i'm annoyed with facebook everything about it is a farce.
1. claim: Facebook is a online community for friends
reality: Facebook is an anti-social unsafe online stalking tool.
We have children posting up all of their pictures, who their friends are, where they go to school, what their favorite things are, where they want to go on vacation, where they have been. All of these personal details are now posted online. Just ask Chris Hansen if he think kids should be using "social networks"
2. claim: Facebook is social networking
reality: users select and post pictures, post personal details, post notes for others to gawk at. Then people go online snooping on everyone they can get access to.
3. claim: Facebook apps are the new .com
reality: Yes they are the new .com, but in a bad way. Someone please tell me how these apps are making money? the only thing i see is that they are starting to add a lot of garbage to facebook and they are starting to make the site look like the wasteland that is myspace. Really? someone threw a fish at another person online?
4. claim: Facebook is hip and cool
reality: everyone from high school students, to their teachers, to their parents, to the evening news is talking about and using facebook. how hip is that?
So what's my biggest peeve? All these people wasting effort on facebook is just sad. We should really be developing better tools. We should be developing tools that are truly innovative and open.
If people want to share photos, use photo sharing tools, flikr? picasa?. If people want to post their comments, post on their blog, blogspot, movabletype?. If people want to play online games play online games, wii, warfish?
Although I don't know of a good way to link these together yet, maybe that's the direction we need to head. Or maybe it's better that they aren't.
Posted by Bryant at November 15, 2007 01:11 AM