The new Facebook
I’m tired of hearing about Facebook, being on Facebook, Facebook changes, etc. Get a clue! The first edition was the best.
I remember the good ol’ days when I was a senior in high school waiting for the acceptance letter from a university — not because I was dying to know I got in. I wanted to snag that university email address that would allow me to finally join the new thing everybody older than me was talking about… Facebook.com. At that forgotten time, you could only have an account on the site if you were in college and this made sense. You graduate from high school and go off into the big, bad world losing everyone you have known for at least the past four years. Facebook was the means to keeping up with each other’s lives.
Having never lived in one place for more than five years in my life, I found friends from everywhere I had ever lived that I hadn’t been able to stay in touch with through snail mail and that updated version called email. Of course, even email wasn’t that big when I was in elementary school as computers were few and far between.
Yes, I am that generation. That is my childhood history — the computer. But that is a whole other post.
I liked Valleywag’s, on gawker.com, post on the subject and CEO Zuckerberg, who in my opinion has gone a little loopy.
The Web site says:
“Zuckerberg would rather Facebook be ‘disruptive’ than, say, popular, useful, or successful.”
Which is evident in the many changes the site has made since its beginning and rise to Internet fame.
“What’s a good example of a disruptive company? Why, Twitter, which Zuckerberg tried to buy for $500 million in cash and stock. Having failed to grab Twitter, Zuckerberg has redesigned the website in its image — a steady stream of real-time updates which are impossible to follow unless you stay on the website all day long.”
And here is my favorite part:
“Which sound great, unless you have a job, a family, or a life.”
p.s. - I am highly against Twitter, and do not want to join, even more than Facebook, which I am still a member of, for now.
