Facebook, you’re dead to me
During my blog hiatus, I was ruminating on a potential post about what I don’t like about Facebook. Now I don’t really need to as Fake Steve Jobs summed it up perfectly: The problem with Facebook.
Facebook seems to have missed their window of opportunity. They were on the verge of expanding beyond their main college demographic, the API was released to a bunch of bloghead fanfare, they were one of the first to create an excellent iphone version, and then came the tidal wave of crap werewolf-zombie-pirate attacks and superdumbwalls. They failed to create or encourage any form of usefulness in their product.
Frankly, I also find their site design is clean but really boring looking — kinda the opposite of myspace, busy and annoying but exciting in a way.
I’ll probably keep my account on the site — hell I still have an account on friendster, I think.
The one thing I will say in defense of Facebook is that they’ve recently made it possible to block all invites/notices from any particular ap, so you don’t have to see the stupid zombiepirateninjamonkey invites anymore.
Hey! Good to see you pop up on my flickr stream. I really dig your blog design – beautiful! Also, totally agree on facebook. Blech. It’s boring, and fabulous internet stalker fodder all at the same time. And yet, I’m sucked in.
Good to refind you on the interweb!
Patty
I hopped up on Facebook during the Tribe Crisis last fall, but found the interface and environment lacking.
For something that’s supposed to be the grown-up alternative to MySpace, there’s sure a lot of high-school crap there.
I like the Twitter model of social networking, especially the forced brevity (as we all know, brevity=wit).