FaceSpace
Facebook has offically become retarded. When I first joined during my sophmore year at Tech it was kind of a cool thing. I liked the idea that universities were represented in the system as homogenus groups of people. Sure, you could have cross university friends, but groups were exclusive.
Now everything has changed. It seems Facebook has been plagued by one screw up after another. First, they open it up to high schoolers. Facebook was known as a college social networking tool, so that change was quite unwelcome. It sparked numerous protest groups and petitions. Next, they introduce feeds before coding the privacy tools to control them. Privacy is a pretty important thing there guys. And now, they open the system up to anyone with a valid email address (with a few restrictions).
I’m not upset with Facebook, mainly because I only use it to keep in touch with some friends at other colleges, and I’m not terribly fond of social networking sites. I do, however, realize their potential. If anything, Facebook is a much better implementation than myspace, but things change. Let’s hope not.
Eric said,
September 27, 2006 @ 9:57 am
Dude. Calling facebook “exclusive” is like calling the men’s restroom exclusive… yeah, you have to meet certain credentials to get in, but at the end of the day, there’s millions of people able to go in.
The problem with Facebook is the same problem that college sunday school classes and young married sunday school classes have: people grow out of the targetted group, and don’t fit in as well any more after even just one year outside the demographic (for college classes, that’d be when you got a ‘real job’, for young married classes, that’s when you either have a baby or have been married 3 to 4+ years). They really didn’t have alot of choice but to open it up if they want to keep it relevant and hawt and revenue-generating. (in my opinion and all that)
jduv said,
September 27, 2006 @ 1:35 pm
I didn’t call facebook itself “exclusive,” I called the groups mechanism exclusive. But you do make good points, as always. I mostly wanted to point out the things I don’t like about facebook now.
lala said,
September 28, 2006 @ 11:49 pm
muh.
ps– don’t delete muh. muh is DEFINITELY *on* *topic*