The word ‘Friend’ has been destroyed the last 6 years.
A friend is someone who will take you the airport in a big city.
A friend will borrow money, truly believing he will pay you back with the full vig.
I have no ‘Friends of Facebook’ and ‘Friendster’ got what it deserved from the ‘Friend’ gods.
My daughter Rachel is just learning about Friends and than Facebook comes along.
One of my fave movies is Stephen Kink’s ‘The Dead Zone’:
Christopher Walken asks his doctor…’If you could turn back time and kill Hitler’….
Facebook is a lot of evil wrapped up in some cute ‘Like it and Friend’ buttons. The more I understand their business model, the more I see Equifax, wrapped around Moody’s, with a Goldman Sachs overlay. To top it off, the whole universe extension of the ‘Friend’ world in Facebook will revolve around a new currency. Facebook’s next big moves will be in Washington DC on the lobby side.
You can drink from the Facebook kool-aid, but you will have sold your ‘Friend’ soul to the devil.
Maybe there is a difference between a ‘friend’ and ‘good friend’ and ‘best friend’. unless you are an angry hobbit, living in a cave, there’s no reason to be upset about an easy way to stay connected with ‘friends’ or people you have shared life experiences with, even if not in the present.
Facebook is evil because? They diminish the quality and significance of real interpersonal relationships? They're going to make money off of the data asset they've built up? Zuckerberg's a bit of a douche?
their evilness is long term.
How so?
i belive it is inevitable that new forms of social credit scores wll be
coming.
lets just wait and see.
you may make a great faebook employee :)
I see this more as a run at Google and not so much at finance & banking. But to a man with a hammer… ;)
And I'm better than a Facebook employee, I generate so many impressions for them that I'm sure I'm paying one of their salaries :)
Maybe there is a difference between a 'friend' and 'good friend' and 'best friend'. unless you are an angry hobbit, living in a cave, there's no reason to be upset about an easy way to stay connected with 'friends' or people you have shared life experiences with, even if not in the present.
PS, where did you get your like button idea??
Facebook is evil because? They diminish the quality and significance of real interpersonal relationships? They’re going to make money off of the data asset they’ve built up? Zuckerberg’s a bit of a douche?
their evilness is long term.
PS, where did you get your like button idea??
How so?
i belive it is inevitable that new forms of social credit scores wll be
coming.
lets just wait and see.
you may make a great faebook employee :)
I see this more as a run at Google and not so much at finance & banking. But to a man with a hammer… ;)
And I’m better than a Facebook employee, I generate so many impressions for them that I’m sure I’m paying one of their salaries :)
Wayne, FB will become the biggest third party data seller for online advertising, and they’ll make a fortune. Their display advertising will not work because brand advertising on Facebook has little or no brand. DR advertising works. But if they sell user data every media agency, DSP and ad network will buy data from them. I can see the regulators coming after them big time. Facebook is creating the biggest data pool ever seen.
With friends like Facebook, who needs enemies?
With friends like Facebook, who needs enemies?
I associate Facebook with a printing press for friends – it doesn’t create new value, but deludes the existing one. I have to admit that I don’t use it; therefore I don’t fully understand it. Maybe there is a way to filter the noise, but someone has to pay Facebook’s investors for their risk and efforts and there are three basic ways to do it – money, personal information, time.
I associate Facebook with a printing press for friends – it doesn't create new value, but deludes the existing one. I have to admit that I don't use it; therefore I don't fully understand it. Maybe there is a way to filter the noise, but someone has to pay Facebook's investors for their risk and efforts and there are three basic ways to do it – money, personal information, time.
I agree that the meaning of the word “friend” has been destroyed. See my recent article on this same subject http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2010/04/internet-friends-wont-save-you-or-your.html
I agree that the meaning of the word “friend” has been destroyed. See my recent article on this same subject http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2010/04/in…
I still also don’t get facebook
spot on howard about where it’s going with friends. check out this book sometime – it’s a light read on facebook’s early history: http://amzn.to/d3Ru4v
it was interesting to read about its lean-startup phase way before peter thiel got involved, how they strategically hit college campuses, managed a tight team and iterated new features, and it really gives you a full sense of zuck’s boldness and vision since the beginning.
Just try to delete your account. I tried deleting an old unused account, following every single one of their hard-to-find rules.
The result was a page on the fb site stating that I had been banned for “excessive use of a certain feature”.
Obviously the delete feature is not designed to be used.
Evil? Agreed.
i jut gutted it doen to nothing. not muc more I am willing to do now.
Which is exactly the way I am now ‘maintaining’ my remaining fb account. All my Friends know I don’t go there.
I still also don't get facebook
spot on howard about where it's going with friends. check out this book sometime – it's a light read on facebook's early history: http://amzn.to/d3Ru4v
it was interesting to read about its lean-startup phase way before peter thiel got involved, how they strategically hit college campuses, managed a tight team and iterated new features, and it really gives you a full sense of zuck's boldness and vision since the beginning.
Just try to delete your account. I tried deleting an old unused account, following every single one of their hard-to-find rules.
The result was a page on the fb site stating that I had been banned for “excessive use of a certain feature”.
Obviously the delete feature is not designed to be used.
Evil? Agreed.
i jut gutted it doen to nothing. not muc more I am willing to do now.
Which is exactly the way I am now 'maintaining' my remaining fb account. All my Friends know I don't go there.
I’ve assumed forever that I’ll be the last to cave in and join Facebook, but I’ll wait til you tell me it’s OK :). The question is, will my “friends” ever join Twitter?
I've assumed forever that I'll be the last to cave in and join Facebook, but I'll wait til you tell me it's OK :). The question is, will my “friends” ever join Twitter?
I deleted my Facebook account last night. (Yes, I know it takes two weeks.) Couldn’t take it any more. Yesterday some bastard flagged my outgoing links as “abusive” and FB blocked them. Two were to articles mildly critical of FB (much milder than this post) and one was to a story about the oil well disaster in the Gulf!
I’m a writer and won’t take this shit. Mess with my content, and you’re dead. Had the account for a year and a half, turned off everything, left no personal data in the profile, and STILL they messed with me, time and time again. Turned things on and off without telling me, too. I have principles, they don’t. Couldn’t stomach enriching a 20-something billionaire, either. Facebook IS evil. If you can’t feel that, you probably
voted for Obama like I did. :-(
This is my first FB-free day. It feels WONDERFUL: no weirdos, no “invitations,” no breathless running commentary on every stupid click, no bastardization of the language (“friends”), no horrible insulting interface, no dehumanization, no data mining. Cleaner now, much much cleaner.
People have abandoned the responsibility for maintaining their personal relationships to this entity that doesn’t give a flying fuck about them. Now it will be harder for me to keep up with my family, but I can do it, just like we all did LESS THAN 10 YEARS AGO, before we all lost our minds.
I deleted my Facebook account last night. (Yes, I know it takes two weeks.) Couldn't take it any more. Yesterday some bastard flagged my outgoing links as “abusive” and FB blocked them. Two were to articles mildly critical of FB (much milder than this post) and one was to a story about the oil well disaster in the Gulf!
I'm a writer and won't take this shit. Mess with my content, and you're dead. Had the account for a year and a half, turned off everything, left no personal data in the profile, and STILL they messed with me, time and time again. Turned things on and off without telling me, too. I have principles, they don't. Couldn't stomach enriching a 20-something billionaire, either. Facebook IS evil. If you can't feel that, you probably
voted for Obama like I did. :-(
This is my first FB-free day. It feels WONDERFUL: no weirdos, no “invitations,” no breathless running commentary on every stupid click, no bastardization of the language (“friends”), no horrible insulting interface, no dehumanization, no data mining. Cleaner now, much much cleaner.
People have abandoned the responsibility for maintaining their personal relationships to this entity that doesn't give a flying fuck about them. Now it will be harder for me to keep up with my family, but I can do it, just like we all did LESS THAN 10 YEARS AGO, before we all lost our minds.
Noticed some of you say you gutted your accounts down to nothing. Why the hell do you HAVE them? Facebook will still change the back end while you’re asleep and never tell you. Even if you run a gutted FB page, you still have to go there to clean up after the jerks, over and over again. Life is too short for that.
So far, I am loving this FB-free existence.
Noticed some of you say you gutted your accounts down to nothing. Why the hell do you HAVE them? Facebook will still change the back end while you're asleep and never tell you. Even if you run a gutted FB page, you still have to go there to clean up after the jerks, over and over again. Life is too short for that.
So far, I am loving this FB-free existence.
Wayne, FB will become the biggest third party data seller for online advertising, and they'll make a fortune. Their display advertising will not work because brand advertising on Facebook has little or no brand. DR advertising works. But if they sell user data every media agency, DSP and ad network will buy data from them. I can see the regulators coming after them big time. Facebook is creating the biggest data pool ever seen.
I guess I just don’t get it.
Why would I want to post a list of all my friends for the entire world to see?Why would I want my friends to know who all my other friends are?
Why would I want total strangers to know about myself and my family?
People complain about their lack of privacy, then they join Facebook.
I just don’t get it.