The website that acts like your crazy ex-girlfriend
Comments: 2 - Date: November 27th, 2007 - Categories: Social Networking
“Facebook isn’t just a crazy ex-girlfriend, it’s a crazy ex-girlfriend who follows you around when you’re shopping and whom you can’t get to stop calling you.” — Some Bits: Nelson’s Weblog
People (1, 2) whose opinion on these matters I respect a great deal are voicing their dismay at Facebook and their new ad model.
Should be interesting to see how this plays out, particularly because Facebook responded a year ago to user outcries by putting in more privacy controls.
Comment by Christopher Poile - 28 November 2007 @ 9:42 am
Cory Doctorow has a nice article about How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook: http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573
I think I agree. The 4th grader mentality of being friended seems a little… immature? Particularly when others can see who is and who isn’t your FFF (facebook friend forever). What are the social obligations and expectations placed on you by other people when they asked to be friended? What happens when the person asking to be your FFF is someone who has power over you in the real world? And so on.
While not exactly the same as Brookes’s Law, at some point more people doesn’t make Facebook more useful, and probably less.
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