Confession : I don’t like Facebook
Way back when (like 2005) I was invited to join Facebook by my friend Tony. At the time, it was still limited to a few schools and I wasn’t quite sure what do to with it. During the rest of my college years, I used it periodically and was underwhelmed by the whole experience.
Fast forward a few years. Facebook has grown to include just about anyone, they’ve added more features than you can shake a stick at, and it’s entered popular culture as the de facto social network king. (MySpace is reserved for child predators and middle school kids). It’s valued at something north of $15 billion and it’s the new hot tech company to work for (surpassing even Google).
Even with all the success and praise thrown upon the
sitenetworkempire, I’m ready to admit it: I don’t like Facebook.
Maybe it’s because they’ve gone corporate and the site is now chock-a-block full of ads. Maybe it’s because 99.9% of Facebook aps are really annoying. Maybe it’s because I’m anti-social and weird. Whatever it is, I don’t like it.
And I’m not alone:
I’m calling it - 2008 is the year Facebook peaks and starts to fall. It may not be evident immediately, and they’ll likely be phenomenally profitable for another few years, but this is the year the web-elite start socializing elsewhere.
Filed under culture, technology : Comments (2) : Jan 23rd, 2008 by tadfad
January 25th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
There’s a neat article related to this issue by Cory Doctorow (of BoingBoing) entitled “How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook.”
January 29th, 2008 at 3:55 am
So where will the web elite be social networking?