I’m too good for Facebook. While I give the site props for its huge user-base and its resultant ability to put you in touch with people you haven’t seen in years, this whole closed-social-networking-system thing is for the birds. Why do I have to log into Facebook to check and reply to messages from my friends? That problem’s already been solved, and the solution is called—listen closely—email.
It is not the early days of the internet anymore, and Facebook shouldn’t be trying to emulate AOL. Remember what happened to AOL?
Like I said; I do understand the benefits of getting in touch with people on FB—I had lunch this week with a friend I hadn’t seen in 13 (!) years, a friend who happened to be living in the same city as me, clear across the country from where we grew up—but I don’t understand the benefits of keeping in touch with those same people in this artificially closed system.
Well, it’s only a matter of time before all these closed systems become open, and social networking is as transparent as air and email.
stumpy said:
I agree. I never really respond to people via facebook. We rekindle there and then communicate via email. I just use facebook to look at pictures and see how people who I haven’t been in touch with are getting along. I like the pictures
August 29th, 2008 at 10:45 pm