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Facebook – Deserving Congrats Or Drinking From The Kool-Aid?

Posted by on Apr 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

Despite overcoming one of the worst UI changes since MySpace, having their butts handed to them by Twitter with regard to making the social Web useful vs. cool, Facebook is embracing their 200 million people who clearly have entirely too much time on their hands.

This is not to say that everyone with a Facebook page is wasting their time — just most of them. My own Facebook page is used for actually connecting with other people, posting what I had for breakfast that morning. Am I being a bit overly sarcastic? Good, because with the history of Facebook drama ranging from their privacy policy mistakes to their handling of their TOS, I just can not find one thing to celebrate here outside the skyrocketing moment with apparent Kool-Aid sales.

So Facebook is big now? Cool, let’s hope with this newly found girth that Facebook can finally decide what the heck their mission in life is besides encourging spam and wasting time for the world’s masses.

  • Mike

    Facebook is done for me – I don’t log on anymore since the upgrade, I don’t want to see twitter-like status feeds, I use Twitter for that. I used it for networking with local folk, family and old friends, not for whatever it is trying to become.

    Myspace is for teenagers, Facebook was for college age and adults, not anymore – so where do the adults go now??

  • http://www.nicholastuck.com Nick T

    Though your point is apparent, I am not certain that attitude toward facebook is really all that necessary. Is it really facebooks fault for creating a tool that people got addicted to? Maybe the internet is to blame…

    I agree people waste way too much time on facebook, but in all reality twitter is dumb however you seem to have less hostility toward the tool twitter provides as opposed to the massive amount of possibilities of facebook.

    Should we worry ourselves with the thousands of people wasting their time on facebook, it makes them happy. I would much rather read something that utilized the tool in a unique way… But then again I did read an entry on how people waste their time on face book and I wasted time to respond… Hopefully to decrease any influence the article had on peoples mushy, mold-able brains who stumbled here from hulu.