The other day I received an email from my brother-in-law inviting me to join his network of friends on Facebook. So I followed the link, which directed me to set up an account and confirm we were "friends." Suddenly I had all kinds of people inviting me to their Facebook pages. Great! An instant network....I guess.
Here's what I know about Facebook: I've heard of it. I've heard of Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 yr. old founder whose net worth is something like $23 billion because of it, but I had never actually logged on to the website.
After exploring the minimalistic site and looking at my "friends" profiles, I don't really get the point. What makes it so great? Other than providing the world with what I consider highly confidential identifying information about oneself and having little one-liner conversations with your friends posted, what am I supposed to do on Facebook? I'm serious. Give me advice, because now I'm a member and I'm not sure why.
After exploring the minimalistic site and looking at my "friends" profiles, I don't really get the point. What makes it so great? Other than providing the world with what I consider highly confidential identifying information about oneself and having little one-liner conversations with your friends posted, what am I supposed to do on Facebook? I'm serious. Give me advice, because now I'm a member and I'm not sure why.
8 comments:
I pretty much feel the same, thanks Jon. Jerk. I have no idea and in my mind its just another MySpace page, yuck. So now that I too am a member I probably will never use it.
I totally and completely agree! I dislike facebook to the extreme! I can't figure out how to navigate, and when I think I know what I'm doing something else does or does not happen! So I'm with you, boo facebook! yucky.
I too have just joined cause a friend emailed me. I have purposefully avoiding Facebook and mySpace, but thought I'd check the out. So we'll see. I am actually working on a literature review right now of empirical research about Facebook and other social networking/open source websites. I'll let you know if it provides any more insight into it.
I wondered why you joined...look at the peer pressure...ya'll hate it so much, yet are all members, makes me laugh :)
Actually, it's curiosity that killed the cat. Get a link from a pal that says "check me out" and suddenly you've got a username and password.
I too am on it and never go to it. I can't figure out how to navigate the damn thing. I will admit, however, to being a limited Myspace junkie.
Now my feelings are hurt (joke). For the record, I signed up because the friend that invited me was writing a applet to attach to facebook. I thought he was sending me to check out his work.
We will try to find some way to compensate you all for your pain and suffering.
See, Facebook is onto something by making you have to create an ID to view its pages. We're all suckers!
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