[colug-432] Facebook

[Dan]

Not to mention all the information Facebook collects on you.

Rick Troth wrote:
> On 06/23/2015 01:27 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote:
>> Wouldn't help me much. I'm not Facebooked, Linked-in, or Twittered.
>
> And that's okay ... even *recommended*. (see below) Just that, those 
> of us who *are* on LI should take advantage of it. (And I suspect, but 
> cannot prove, that using it will drive reduction of spam in that 
> space.) But I would keep most conversational interactions here in this 
> forum.
>
> About Facebook, LI, Twitter, G+, especially FB:
> If you haven't signed up for Facebook, don't! It's a terrible lock-in. 
> One could fairly describe it as an internet black hole.
>
> It's not like FB is some inherently evil thing. It's just that once 
> you get involved it becomes difficult to extract yourself from it. The 
> culture on FB is broad, which would be a good thing except that FB 
> does not provide the means for normalizing interaction. Example: Sally 
> and Sara both know Susan, but haven't been in touch for years. Susan 
> posts a status, Sara comments, and then in the resulting thread Sally 
> says "Hi Sara! Where have you been and how are you? I miss you so much!".
>
> This doesn't even mention the mis-directed drama.
>
> Technically, Facebook re-invents common internet services in its own 
> image. (Presumably so it can reap ad revenue.) Some examples ...
>
>   * IM:
>     We had plenty of IM services, and FB could have joined in. Instead
>     they chose to implement their own "chat" which cannot (reliably)
>     be accessed outside of their engine. Sure, there's a Pidgin
>     plug-in. It sucks.
>   * EMail:
>     It's the 21st century. One can reasonably send "correspondence"
>     to/from thousands (millions) of autonomous installations. But not
>     FB. They chose to implement their own messaging service which must
>     run in their user experience engine.
>   * Calendar:
>     It's really handy, especially when you think of *social* media, to
>     share and organize events. As with email, one could very reliably
>     send and receive invitations and related notices. But FB chose to
>     handle "events" internally.
>
>
> Back to the drama thing, one close relative grew tired of the noise 
> and emotional roller-coaster. She "unfriended" many and almost closed 
> her account. But she stopped just short of that. Too many others are 
> in that space. I'm feeling the same way, would love to turn down the 
> volume, but it's really really difficult to take the step of shutting 
> it completely off.
>
> Don't get FB.
>
> This probably puts me *out* of the race for a job with Facebook. 
> Possibly not so great for me at this juncture, but I gotta be honest.
>
> Also, FB is doing some *good* things with PHP and related tech. (a 
> coin always has two sides)
>
> -- R; <><
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