In a way, I see your point. I quite like that Facebook will email me to let me know if someone’s done something to me(!).. oh, and I can keep up with friends’ updates with my RSS feed reader (no need to log in) gives me that slightly less ‘parochial’ feeling than the “use our browser.. we’ll let you see what we think the web is” vibe that AOL gave (gives?) off.
Then there are links, galleries.. not to mention that it is – for my money – a much more accessible user experience than MySpace (yeuk!) or even FriendReunited.
I see myself as the geek buzzing round the newest geek space (hell, I’ve been accused of being one so many times, I’ve started getting in there first!) … I guess we’ll have to see if I’m still addicted to Facebook in six … or three .. or one month’s time.
>> oh, and I can keep up with friends’ updates with my RSS feed reader (no need to log in)
Ah, I did not realise that. They get 1 point for that ability at least. Though this still serves to draw you back inside to be active or derive real value.
[...] all is not perfect in the walled garden of Facebook. It’s still a silo – perhaps with Hotel California tendencies. [...]
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Sproxton said at 7:05 am on July 3rd, 2007:
I agree. I logged onto to Facebook once (and MySpace) but it’s just so ruddy complicated. People need to get out more. Did FriendsReunited miss the social networking boat? Maybe? When I logged on years ago, I made contact with school friends I hadn’t seen or heard of in 15 or more years. But after a flurry of “oh my God”s and “I can’t believe it”s, it soon died down because we’ve got nothing in common! And I already get 500 emails a day at work, so the last thing I want is more from my school mates who’ve settled down to a mind-numbingly boring existence with 8 children in Milton Keynes. So there!
[...] has been by used by Neil Dixon who last June posted feelings similar to mine in “Facebook – a very big claustrophobic bubble” : “There is one element to Facebook that makes the alarm bells ring for me, in [...]
In a way, I see your point. I quite like that Facebook will email me to let me know if someone’s done something to me(!).. oh, and I can keep up with friends’ updates with my RSS feed reader (no need to log in) gives me that slightly less ‘parochial’ feeling than the “use our browser.. we’ll let you see what we think the web is” vibe that AOL gave (gives?) off.
Then there are links, galleries.. not to mention that it is – for my money – a much more accessible user experience than MySpace (yeuk!) or even FriendReunited.
I see myself as the geek buzzing round the newest geek space (hell, I’ve been accused of being one so many times, I’ve started getting in there first!) … I guess we’ll have to see if I’m still addicted to Facebook in six … or three .. or one month’s time.
Cheers
j
p.s. Sorry about the nonsensical sentence structure of that previous comment! It’s a bit dark in here, and my eyes are getting heavy…
>> oh, and I can keep up with friends’ updates with my RSS feed reader (no need to log in)
Ah, I did not realise that. They get 1 point for that ability at least. Though this still serves to draw you back inside to be active or derive real value.
Hear, hear (waves order papers)…
[...] all is not perfect in the walled garden of Facebook. It’s still a silo – perhaps with Hotel California tendencies. [...]
I agree. I logged onto to Facebook once (and MySpace) but it’s just so ruddy complicated. People need to get out more. Did FriendsReunited miss the social networking boat? Maybe? When I logged on years ago, I made contact with school friends I hadn’t seen or heard of in 15 or more years. But after a flurry of “oh my God”s and “I can’t believe it”s, it soon died down because we’ve got nothing in common! And I already get 500 emails a day at work, so the last thing I want is more from my school mates who’ve settled down to a mind-numbingly boring existence with 8 children in Milton Keynes. So there!
[...] has been by used by Neil Dixon who last June posted feelings similar to mine in “Facebook – a very big claustrophobic bubble” : “There is one element to Facebook that makes the alarm bells ring for me, in [...]