This week, not my typical entry....
Just some thoughts...
So here is this thing called Facebook, not so unlike the others, Myspace and such. But somehow different. Used as primarily a gateway to keep track of friends and family, right? Somehow turned into a place where everyone feels "everyone wants to know what I am doing right now"! So not true. Self centered posts about you being late for class, thats just fxckin' great for you. Who thought this was a good idea?
Now the semi-useful posts are okay, what are you doing, should it be relevant to anyone, is a good example. I'm going to the movies, another way of saying "Who wants to join me at the movies?", is a great one. Noone cares that you are "Super excited for the weekend". That is just your way of getting people to ask "What's this weekend?!?!?!" like they REALLY care. They want to see what's in it for them. If you want to tell people what's going on this weekend, say it. Another classic useless update "gr..". Double-you tee eff.
I get that this is the "point" of this. It's not very innovative and how does this catch on? It's basically Twitter, which stands higher on the social network scale because of simplicity and interaction. Nothing useless on there. If you want to tell everyone what you are doing, use twitter where the people that care will read it, the people that don't, won't.
With an open mind Facebook is just like the rest, doesn't make it better. To end this little nonsensical rant, the ranks.
Twitter- Tell the people that care what you're doing, don't read what the people you don't care about are doing. Bliss. Barebones, though. Sharing pictures can be done as well as links. What more could you need??
Myspace- Once the ultimate place to find MUSIC. Dethroned probably before it even began by Last.fm (2nd most useful thing on the web, next to Pandora).
Facebook- Hear what theyre all doing, see all their opinions, waste hours and hours of time with the useless apps. More barebones than myspace, not all the flash. And according to the bland "Myspace for college kids".
BTW: Facebook, you ain't takin my shit
This was really cool. I, (as a mysterious commentor) have a personal hatred for the popularity social networking has gained and how self absorbed it makes people. You sir, are my hero, but you must never know my identity...which makes me more like a hero than you, but nonetheless i didn't just use charisma to tear the internet a new one...bravo.
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