March 31, 2007
Facebook is shit
Also of interest: Attention is Power
Everybody’s sending me Facebook invites. I’m going straight to Virb instead. See you there in 6 months.
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Filed by Julien at 12:11 pm under trends
Don’t do this to me! I’ve got Virb loaded in another tab, but I’m not looking at it until this is done!
Myspace… horrible. But everyone I knew was on it.
Then facebook. Actually kinda cool, and even more people I know are on it.
Virb. I bet it’s the best thing since sliced bread. But convincing all my friends from Facebook to get over onto it… ack… I dunno… That’s the problem with all of these social networks…
How about last.fm? It’s music oriented and doesn’t proclaim on it’s homepage to work with iTunes (only).
Oh and facebook is exactly what you called it. I might be tempted to feel a little out of the loop because I’ve never received an invite, but quite frankly that’s not a loop I’d like to jump into. Too many concrete walls to hit at high speed.
ha ha, whatever yo, you’re just upset you didn’t get there first ;)
Touche!
[…] Interestingly, Julien Smith posted a little while back that he thought Facebook was shit, and that he was using Virb instead. Personally I happen to be on both, but I think that Julien’s comment “see you in six months” might be very prescient… Facebook could indeed be crushed under the weight not of poor design, but of bad behaviour. It will be interesting to see what happens. […]
yo man…finally someone agrees…FACEBOOK IS SHIT!!!!!
yeah their appclications never work and its is full of shit
yeah its shit i want to cause pain to the guy who made it
it reduces us all to ciphers and ghosts of ourselves. it alienates and isolates us from real human contact. while you are there tapping away uploading tedious pics of dull parties and trips there are real humans outside your door. its hard to find people who think as i do, but humans are so much more than this shallow simulcrum of real life. 21st media existence is a loss of ourselves in the shadows of cyberspace whoredom and we enter this pool of shit at the cost of our souls. am i freak? do i care? live free babies
Came across this [dis][cuss]ion bit late but am with ’shadow’ 100 percent. I’ve had a few bad experiences, including on dating websites (administrators are evil) and am in no way gonna register on Facebook. Could do it on a less personal note, no photos and all that but just can’t be bothered. I hope I meet my soulmate in the shopping aisle..
Am registered on MySpace for music and it’s alright. It takes time to build up some good contacts and to share ideas, swap and create. Some of the big artists annoy me because they are purely on there for commercial gain. I got contacted by a few but really, they’re not looking for friendship, just your custom…
Apart from networking websites becoming saturated, things lose their novelty quite quickly nowadays, or, they just get filled up with timewasters, narcissists or people with devious intentions.
Sorry ’bout doom and gloom but sometimes you have to learn the hard way. Somehow, somewhere there will be a backlash, the internet social networking bubble will burst, and hopefully we’ll all get our social skills back and not be so fuckin’ ‘fraid of each other!
i agree that facebook is shit. I have just been kicked off by an administrator for asking to many people to be my friend i have argued and argued with them and they just basically tell me to f off.
They were great before they got to big and then they become massive (which they are) and they dont give a shit about anyone. The bigger they get the more crap they put on there like sending a beer and the other 16000 applications that clog up your system!
I think there should be a website out there boycot facebook lol
Facebook is indeed shit and shadow’s comment hits the nail on the head fairly well