Comments on: Why I’m over FaceBook http://humaneia.com/2007/10/07/why-im-over-facebook/ What are we if we are not humane? Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:48:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: AndrewBoyd http://humaneia.com/2007/10/07/why-im-over-facebook/#comment-125 AndrewBoyd Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:16:33 +0000 http://humaneia.com/2007/10/07/why-im-over-facebook/#comment-125 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 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

]]> By: Sean Fishlock http://humaneia.com/2007/10/07/why-im-over-facebook/#comment-124 Sean Fishlock Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:43:20 +0000 http://humaneia.com/2007/10/07/why-im-over-facebook/#comment-124 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. 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.

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