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• all that distracting crap is how they pay the bills, brother... In reply to: "Facebook could learn a thing or two"

  December 14, 2008

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• I'm not sure why so many come to the quick defense of facebook.... besides being a single design, it's a poor design that forces small, twitter-like correspondence and very little else. most correspondence comes in the form of commenting on status and writing on someone's wall. I've rarely seen any blog posts, nor any statement exceeding 1 paragraph in length.
  
  I get the distinct feeling that this is the hallmark of a new, younger generation (post-genx). Short, disjointed thoughts, no actual physical engagement, brief, inarticulate and poorly spelt. Insincere and common.. uniform, not much originality but generally dumb and happy.. most of my peers have migrated to facebook for more privacy and it's apparently deemed more 'adult'. I'm sure that DATELINE NBC had a lot to do with the mass exodus from Myspace. But on Myspace, I got articulate, deeply written blogs. While facebook has a more 'daily' nature to the correspondence and contact, I feel it's less interesting and less committed. I get a window into my friend's lives, and offer one for them into mine --- but I get very little sincere correspondence..
  
  Facebook, I find, is the least 'social' of the applications.
  
  Also, I dislike the washed out colors in the photos uploaded, the irritating invites to stupid applications (**** your pieces of flare), the unusable layout and the irrelevant advertising...
  How do they even make money? The generation they're carrying spends 0 dollars online and will do anything within their power to get things for free.
  And the second Facebook decides to charge for any service rendered, there audience will be on to the next place..... in 3 years, we'll look at facebook the way people look at friendster.... another stop along the road to the next best thing... In reply to: "Facebook could learn a thing or two"

  December 14, 2008

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