…social backbone of the web, open platform of the future, brave new world, business/social networking paradise, all things to all people, the new Google, blah blah blah.
If it is so wonderful why do I have to go to a browser and log in to interact? Didn’t Skype and Twitter solve this ages ago? Where’s the ubiquosity? The seemless desktop integration? Sheesh!
I hear you on this one.
Personally though I think Facebook differs from services like Skype and Twitter in that it isn’t immediate and that creates a more “honest” and pure sense of social networking. You close off a chat conversation when it is done, whereas walls, feeds and applications are there for a lot longer and for most of your friends to see. Much more conducive to word-of-mouth networking activities. Just like mobiles and SMS hasn’t killed email, I think that Facebook fills a communication niche.
The biggest problem in my opinion is takeup. Not just of Facebook, but of the Internet in general.
Having said that, I’ll give it a little while longer before I am completely sick of it, unless, like you say, it gets some ubiquity about it.
Hi Sean,
thank you for your comment.
To be honest, I mostly agree with you 100%. I guess I am more over the FB hype than FB itself, although the appspam is a concern.
Don’t get me wrong – Facebook has issues, and needs to address them. Let’s just treat it as one more SNAP evolution-in-action rather than the be-all and end-all. So what if it is next year’s Google? We should be looking for the year after next’s Facebook now
Best regards, Andrew