Comments on: More on facebook http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2007/09/more-on-facebook/ A blog on entrepreneurship, user experience, and web innovation. Published by Fred Oliveira. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Sin Jin http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2007/09/more-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-41196 Sin Jin Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:03:12 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2007/09/more-on-facebook/#comment-41196 ironic thing is facebook went down hill when it started marketing to all you other blue hairs. facebook was hip when it was exclusive...when the people on were hormone-enraged 18-22 year olds. but when you start to throw in a bunch of old farts into the mix the cool factor is bound to go down in all seriousness...the composition of Facebook's memberbase will look a lot like Yahoo's. There will be pockets of sanity and well mannered interactions but there will also be the kind of NY times square-close your-eyes-and-dont-look type of shenanigans that start to mark any well populated network. ironic thing is facebook went down hill when it started marketing to all you other blue hairs. facebook was hip when it was exclusive…when the people on were hormone-enraged 18-22 year olds. but when you start to throw in a bunch of old farts into the mix the cool factor is bound to go down

in all seriousness…the composition of Facebook’s memberbase will look a lot like Yahoo’s. There will be pockets of sanity and well mannered interactions but there will also be the kind of NY times square-close your-eyes-and-dont-look type of shenanigans that start to mark any well populated network.

]]> By: John Larkin http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2007/09/more-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-41190 John Larkin Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:41:03 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2007/09/more-on-facebook/#comment-41190 Good morning Fred, I could not agree more. I have been experimenting with Facebook and frankly I find it all a bit irritating. The "games" and comaprative analysis exercises are somewhat pointless and do not appear to improve one's quality of life. I was particularly annoyed by a trashy sponsored item that appeared in my News Feeds this week. Facebook removed it. It was a multiple choice quiz about picking up female partners! Pathetic! I just read this item on Twitter Facts. "Messages from private Twitter accounts should be only read by other Twitter accounts that have been approved by the owner of the private Twitter account. I discovered that messages from private Twitter accounts can be read by other users on Facebook." http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2007/09/private-twitter-accounts-visible-on.html Facebook is indeed headed down a slippery slope. Cheers John Good morning Fred,

I could not agree more. I have been experimenting with Facebook and frankly I find it all a bit irritating. The “games” and comaprative analysis exercises are somewhat pointless and do not appear to improve one’s quality of life. I was particularly annoyed by a trashy sponsored item that appeared in my News Feeds this week. Facebook removed it. It was a multiple choice quiz about picking up female partners! Pathetic!

I just read this item on Twitter Facts. “Messages from private Twitter accounts should be only read by other Twitter accounts that have been approved by the owner of the private Twitter account. I discovered that messages from private Twitter accounts can be read by other users on Facebook.”

http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2007/09/private-twitter-accounts-visible-on.html

Facebook is indeed headed down a slippery slope.

Cheers

John

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