Facebook anyone?

[eMTe]

I need to politely remind you that...

[Scythe]

Facebook is the devil. Just like any other new fad is.

Hehe, new fad!
... OMG, it's been 4 YEARS since you posted that!!
The Fad that won't go away!!!

http://facebook.com/Jayenkai Incase it wasn't obvious

And yet.....................
IT IS STILL THE DEVIL!!!!!!!!!!

If nothing else, it has spent the last 4 years proving that it is.

[Zyx]

What's so bad with the devil anyway?

[Scythe]

He signs you up for hair loss products and spits in your coffee.

[jayenkai]

Hmmm.. Devil spit in my coffee. wonder what that's like..?

[eMTe]

Facebook is almost finished. I give it two years at best to survive.

Gut feeling.

[jayenkai]

I'd hate to see what happens to the web if both Facebook and Twitter suddenly vanished.
It seems you can't visit any sites, nowadays, without a couple of Like buttons, or a Retweet counter being slap bang in the middle.
Before, we had Digg This, and StumbleUpon icons that were just that.. Static icons.
But now the things are scripted, giving viewers real time data.
How many people have tweeted this page? How many of your friends have liked it?!
It's super-real time, and massively "social!"

If either one of them gets pulled, there's hundreds/thousands/millions of sites that will instantly slow to a crawl, as they all have little scripts leading to a dead website!!

The horror!!!

I've mostly moved on from Facebook, and yet I'm also curiously finding myself pulled further into it. It's a strange combination!
Just a few months ago, I was posting daily health reports, and constantly posting pics of my cat.
That's pretty much stopped now.
I have twitter for the cat pics,and my health is generally uninterestingly samey every day, so doesn't need posting about.

So, yeah, my Facebook account is all but dead, except annoyingly it isn't!
I like playing You Don't Know Jack. I play it pretty much every day. And that's Facebook Integrated!!
I also like playing Words With Friends.. That, too, is Facebook Integrated.
And I have family on Facebook, who I like to keep in touch with, and who would never understand how to work a forum, or know what the Twitter thing's all about!

As much as I'd love to let go, there's always something dragging me back!!

So, what the hey, I started an AGameAWeek Facebook Page, because.. Well.. Might as well, right?!

*shrugs*

It keeps pulling me back in!!!

[Scythe]

In contrast, it keeps pushing me away.

[eMTe]

I'd hate to see what happens to the web if both Facebook and Twitter suddenly vanished.

There's this fine theory that sudden collapses of huge social sites can have psychological impact similar to famines and floods had on our ancestors. But in reality this will not happen, because such a huge site like Facebook will rather die slowly, first evolving into something totally stodgy and losing many users who will move to other sites or return to classic webforums (which may experience sort of reneissance and it is not that unlikely).

[eMTe]

This can be posted either in philosophy topic or in facebook topic or in how to spread topic (you all probably know by now that they are one and the same topic in fact ), but it is a very interesting issue. Facebook recommends you "friends". How it does it, what is Facebook and why you hate US is not that important, he just does it.

You receive a recommendation to "add a friend". You add a friend. You post him cryptic message.

Does it qualify as butterfly effect?

[Scythe]

I live a life of lucky bliss where the devil has never recommended me any friends.

[jayenkai]

Odd event on Facebook, this week.
In 2011, someone requested I be their friend. I didn't know who they were, so sent them a message over facebook, asking who they were..
This week, 2 years later, they replied..
"Why, who are you?"

.. *sigh*

[Zyx]

Now it's your turn to wait 2 years.

[Tormuse]

Facebook is almost finished. I give it two years at best to survive.

Gut feeling.

I doubt that. Facebook is still growing, rather than shrinking, and is a multi-billion dollar recession-proof company. More than that, Facebook is a reflection of a fundamental change in how technology is perceived by society. In the past, only people who were seen as "nerdy" or "geeky" or otherwise socially excluded people participated in online forums, but now, it is a socially accepted, and even expected, norm in mainstream society to be a part of sites like Facebook. Of course, nothing lasts forever and Facebook may one day fade into obscurity, but it's going to take a *lot* longer than two years.

[eMTe]

Facebook is finished as the tool of communication for elites and this is what I meant. You won't deny that various "above" people you have found over the years via Internet are the most intelligent people on Earth.

Isnt it DL approach?

[jayenkai]

It might not be great for "us" anymore, (or ever!) but there's no denying it's popular for "them".
I was brought up by a family who are about as computer literate as the chair I'm currently sat in. Quite how I ever became the person I am, is beyond me, suffice to say that if the Amstrad hadn't come with a great big "How BASIC works, and other fantastic things" system manual, I probably wouldn't be here.

Up until a few years ago, half of my family didn't "get" the Internet, both figuratively, and literally.. .. No need. None of them had computers!!
Today Elma, Martha, David and Arthur are all my friends on Facebook.
Four different "head of households", spread out over two countries, with no help from me in getting it all set up (due to .. Well.. I've not exactly been out and about, lately!)
They've all done it!

They've all gotten computers, gotten broadband, got online, and setup Facebook.
It amazes me the pulling power that this thing has.
Seeing these family members become hooked on silly little browser games, gives me hope.
Hope that, some day, they might play my games!
Hope that, maybe one day, they'll understand what a phishing scam is, and how to avoid them!
Hope that, perhaps in the future, I won't have to visit them because they can't figure out how to put the clock forward an hour on their oven!!

Facebook.. It's not for us. But it's bringing them closer!

[eMTe]

Biology defines ideology and Fennoscandia won't change it.

[Chroelle]

Whenever you want to get a good laugh about phishing, please just visit this talk and watch from 2.00-4.20.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ze_frank_s_ner ... omedy.html
Its a good laugh!

[eMTe]

Argh. TED again.

Sister, quick! Bunnies to kill!