According to old people, you need to mind your facebook manners. The truth is that all of the social networking sites have now been infiltrated and are well past their prime. Facebook.com, an internet social networking site created by Mark Zuckerberg, first came on the scene and linked college students to one another. With wall posts, messages, and eventually picture posting, stalking one another, or finding out if some dude you hooked up with at the bar has syphilis, became easier than ever.
Fast forward a year or two, and you have the Facebook network no longer discriminating against high school students, and eventually allowed people to subscribe under the network of "No Network". This "No Network" turn was only the beginning of the end. With application additions, and people logging on to Facebook simply to play some sort of stupid ass mini-game, the old Facebook of harmless stalking and learning about people's lives without ever talking to them became a thing of the past.
Apparently now, according to Dan Kadlec, you need to sensor yourself and promote yourself in a certain way on Facebook. Obviously, we recent graduates know to set our privacy preferences, and of course there is the lovely technique (though unofficial action) of the "Facebook-limbo", where you neither confirm nor deny a friend request so that a request is perpetually "pending". Genius. That way people you barely know don't have to be informed that you don't like them, they can merely assume that you don't get around to checking your account and that when you do, you will be friends. WRONG!
The beauty of the Facebook was that it was simple to keep up with your friends and see their most recent bar excursions. Have you ever googled yourself? I have. My facebook profile was the third link. THE THIRD FUCKING LINK! Have you ever ran a google search for the BuDa-BLoG? It's not even on within the first three goddamn pages! I couldn't find this freaking blog on google, but I can find my own Facebook page within the first three links. Houston, we have a problem. Problem number two, as everyone knows, is that old people are allowed on. It's like they never used to have cybersex on AIM back when they were 14 or something. It's like soft core porn for them. That said, when my mother, and BuDaChick's mother have joined the Facebook, I know my cue to disavow any usage of the social netfailing site.
The Facebook was never meant to be a business opportunity. The fact that it is being used as such is a problem for the population that still use it for what Zuckerberg meant for it.
Remember when the bottom of the page said, "Too close for missiles - Switching to Guns", do you remember that? THAT was the last day it was good. Since then, Zuckerberg sold out (and rightfully so, the dude is smart as hell and has made millions, MILLIONS, and the estimated worth of Facebook.com is somewhere in the range of $15 Billion), applications have taken hold of the site, and the best things about the site have gone the wayside. Massive overhauls like autostalker (not an actual term, I'm just referring to the News Feed update that caused an uproar), and all the layout changes, have bastardized the Facebook we all used to love. I've whored out the BuDa-BLoG for $0.15 a month, you don't want to know what I'd do for millions. The point is, it's not wrong, it just doesn't mean that the Facebook still MUST be regarded as being a must-use.
I may be one of the early ones to jump ship, and I'm sure there are those of you out there that still love it - but just so you know, Facebook is headed towards becoming MySpace; a place for disease ridden whores to find a place in pop culture and eventually acquire a television show on MTV, and then get decked by a professional football player who will commence to perform the "Lights Out" dance as the walking venereal disease writhes around on the front lawn.
Listen, my feeling is that social networking sites such as LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter must have a relatively short lifespan. The amount of effort it takes to use, and keep up with these sites is immense. Go back to your first day you signed on to Facebook - not a friend in the Facebook world. You "befriended" anyone who would have you, now you leave people in limbo. Why leave people in limbo? BECAUSE YOU AREN'T FRIENDS WITH THEM! I don't understand why someone you would never want to talk to, you cross the street to avoid, you could possibly want to say, "yes, I want them to have access to every personal picture and message made about me. Yes, let's do that." No, let's not.
Add the effort it takes to keep up with these things, and the amount of old people on Facebook, and forget it. I like Facebook for the times that I need an updated email for my friends, or if I lose my phone and need to reacquire everyones phone number. It's great - FOR ACTUAL FRIENDS.
Facebook earned it's stripes from people of our generation, and now it's really making money that it's gone mainstream. Sell high my peeps.
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