Comments on: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Facebook http://bitpart.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-hate-facebook/ sweet love for planet earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: bitpart http://bitpart.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-hate-facebook/#comment-101 bitpart Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:53:49 +0000 http://bitpart.wordpress.com/?p=96#comment-101 Thank you kindly for reading, and I believe we are in agreement, in principle. Social networks, like anything else, are what one makes of them. The things I find to be downfalls in the cases of Facebook and Myspace surely don't phase many of their millions of users, but I tried to pinpoint why exactly, for myself and for others I'm close to, the platforms no longer sit well. As I said, I'm attracted to the newer generation of networks which enjoy the benefits of greater focus and the trail which Myspace/Facebook have blazed. LinkedIn is a perfect example of that. What I do find is that these platforms encourage mediocre and stilted interaction, and amount to being noisy, albeit comprehensive contact lists. When Facebook's potential is interfered with by its execution, the users suffer. And that's why I hate it. I wasn't writing "why Facebook is bad", simply the reasons why I no longer use it. Thank you kindly for reading, and I believe we are in agreement, in principle. Social networks, like anything else, are what one makes of them. The things I find to be downfalls in the cases of Facebook and Myspace surely don’t phase many of their millions of users, but I tried to pinpoint why exactly, for myself and for others I’m close to, the platforms no longer sit well.

As I said, I’m attracted to the newer generation of networks which enjoy the benefits of greater focus and the trail which Myspace/Facebook have blazed. LinkedIn is a perfect example of that. What I do find is that these platforms encourage mediocre and stilted interaction, and amount to being noisy, albeit comprehensive contact lists. When Facebook’s potential is interfered with by its execution, the users suffer. And that’s why I hate it. I wasn’t writing “why Facebook is bad”, simply the reasons why I no longer use it.

]]> By: Ian Gilyeat http://bitpart.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-hate-facebook/#comment-96 Ian Gilyeat Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:33:28 +0000 http://bitpart.wordpress.com/?p=96#comment-96 Definately a rant. Many parts of what you say are accurate, but in reality doesn't it come down to your own individual choices and how you use Facebook? Or any other social network for that matter... You can use it for stalking and recognize that others will use it for stalking but having the ability to turn off newsfeeds, delete friends or so called friends, make private groups that are administered by you, etc. - I think that provides at least a semblance of sanity on the technology. I use use Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and others, but my objective is to use them carefully and in many cases for different purposes. LinkedIn - professional contacts; Facebook primarily for organizing a worldwide family reunion although also experimenting with integrating it into Salesforce.com; MySpace - purely curiosity and rarely use it, etc. The technology is useful and interesting - but in the end it's up to each one of us to manage it and use it with wisdom. Definately a rant. Many parts of what you say are accurate, but in reality doesn’t it come down to your own individual choices and how you use Facebook? Or any other social network for that matter… You can use it for stalking and recognize that others will use it for stalking but having the ability to turn off newsfeeds, delete friends or so called friends, make private groups that are administered by you, etc. – I think that provides at least a semblance of sanity on the technology. I use use Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and others, but my objective is to use them carefully and in many cases for different purposes. LinkedIn – professional contacts; Facebook primarily for organizing a worldwide family reunion although also experimenting with integrating it into Salesforce.com; MySpace – purely curiosity and rarely use it, etc. The technology is useful and interesting – but in the end it’s up to each one of us to manage it and use it with wisdom.

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