While i’m pleased to see he’s interacting with the world using the awesome power of the world wide web, i’m saddened to hear it involves Facebook. It seems every man (and woman) and his dog (and cat) is using Facebook these days. It’s one bandwagon I’m glad to have missed.
I don’t really see the appeal. I like a nice clean, accessible, logical layout like my blog here on Blogger. Facebook just seems so messy to me. Perched on my girlfriend’s shoulder I’m confronted with streams of comments on a thing called The Wall that seems disjointed since the responses are on another user’s profile (I may be wrong). Facebook also does all that silly stuff of giving people gifts and poking them – maybe I’m just old but didn’t that die out ages ago?
If you’ve read this far you’ve probably realised this is just a poorly worded rant so my apologies for not being more persuasive. I just felt like saying how much I fucking hate sites like Facebook and MySpace, and now, what with my Student Union on it, music groups on it, and various political campaigns on it, it seems it’s becoming a necessity in recent times.
I recently read an argument from Tod Hodgkinson for the Guardian newspaper about why he hates Facebook. While his rants about it leading to some virtual totalitarian regime are quite farfetched, it’s hard to ignore the temptation for corruption so evident in, an essentially data-mining, website like Facebook. All that targeted advertising stuff is everywhere these days and I’m so glad future employers won’t be able to find a silly Facebook profile all about me!
No, I have to say i’m happy living far away from planet Facebook. I’m sure Blogger and all the rest are hardly whiter than white but I personally don’t want complexity in a simple blog and I certainly don’t want to share details of myself, family, friends and preferences with the world and corporations at large. All that stuff about the Digital Divide and splintering from my Media Studies class is all true..
