Losing the interest in Facebook? You're not alone -ever. ·
May 10, 2010Although I’ve come to see why Facebook is interesting to many, notably getting updates on all 700 of your friends and seeing which is the funniest or worst just to make you feel better. But I really have lost my love for Facebook as a social network where I tell my “Friends” what is going on. First, let’s clear up this whole usage of the word “Friend”. This term is completely reprehensible and would rather be coined “Fiends” because most of the people I see online are ex-workers, ex-lovers, ex-best-friends, ex-wives, ex-family (family of ex-wives) and everyone else is just looking for a “Friend”. They add me then they never, ever, ever say hi. Instead, as Facebook is really well known for, you get stalked.
So let’s think about all the stalking going on within Facebook. All your friends can see your photos or wall updates or applications you like. So if you like to let “Everyone I know is getting married or pregnant, I’m just getting drunk” then we know, according to your page likes, how much of an ass you really are without speaking two words to you. Everyone should really think about the effects this can have to all your so called “Friends” along with how the rest of the world decrees you a nut of some sort.
But this stalking thing doesn’t just happen with friends, this happens as well with the people that own pages and groups too! They can all see how much of a nut you are if you allow your info to be seen. So let’s pretend you were intelligent enough to hide that info from the others. You still have to deal with Facebook knowing every little detail of what you do, what you click, what you link, what you say to one another as a social medium. Now this is true stalking power. Imagine the ability to know how many times someone used the word, “Iron Man 2” in a status update. That is raw stalking power to the first dimension. And now that everyone wants a piece of the action more and more users are becoming wildly, well wild. Cutting loose to get attention.
I think it’s become more like YouTube where everyone is just seeking domination over head counts just as twitter seekers want domination over followers and no one gets it. The only way that happens is if you go to high school or a big college or are a mega super star. Take http://www.collegehumor.com which started up in 1999 just like http://www.sportsline.com had started up around that time. They both have a simple purpose and grew it as needed. Fill the site with relative, useful and informative content. Yes, I know that when you see collegehumor.com you don’t see that but it’s all relative and fun and well produced. It’s not crap shot on a shitty camera with bad writing and bad acting. It’s well produced.
The paradigm shifts though as companies such as Mashable scratch their head at everything and use Facebook as their go-to network to find answers -since they don’t have any. Many companies are using the same approach. Report little to nothing, get back everything from the users, then take everything the users say, and report it back -again. Worse instead of investigating they use the other online mediums to figure out what’s going on, regardless of where the sources are from.
Sources… The key word. Just be prepared and open your eyes. Facebook has become the new ‘reality-network meets aol’, Twitter is the new ‘chat’ and Mashable has become the latest start-up that just reports reports of reports reported by not reporters but by you.
And that’s why I got bored and maybe you too. We all got bored on recycled garbage since each fiend you make talks the same crap over and over again then they recycle news back to make it sound like they were the first to hear it. No, they weren’t. It gets really tiring to listen or read all the antics going on since every single network has the same crap going on. And they are all doing the same thing…
Hi. We’re watching you. This is why you enjoy watching us. Welcome to the land of voyeurs.
— Zeus ::)
