Thoughts on the Impending Facebook Exodus
Sorry I haven't posted much recently - with Alaska and whatnot I've been busy. But in any event, there's a new trend (fad?) against Facebook. To be fair, this trend is actually against pretty much all social networking sites, but Facebook is both the biggest and the most used, and so it is getting the most heat. It is the McDonald's of the social networking site. I'm betting someone will make a movie called "Friend Request Me" on the evils of FB. But unlike Morgan Spurlock's excellent film, that film will be utter crap. What we are seeing is, basically, a revolt not against what FB is doing, but what the internet actually is. The past 15 years have seen an excellent technology go from being an odd sounding idea to an essential tool for, well, anything. From porn to research papers, there is literally nothing the internet hasn't improved. The main grevience people have with FB is that it distributes your "private" information. I...