Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
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Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
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Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#2Clearly someone who "once handrolled his own html code and then uploaded it using UNIX commands" is simply too Awesome for Facebook.
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#3I wish I could sign on to the damn thing and not have the first thing I feel be exasperation at the aggressive dimness of it UI and its functionality.
People use Facebook because they see past the "website" and read the content. They communicate with their friends and family. How many non-technical people have you ever heard complain about email apps? They don't because they use email to communicate, not to use an email app.
If the first thing you feel is "exasperation at the aggressive dimness of it UI and its functionality" then you need to find some new people to connect with so that you're actually interested in reading what they have to say.
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#4Clearly someone who "once handrolled his own html code and then uploaded it using UNIX commands" is simply too Awesome for Facebook.
I found his stance to be quite smug but he got his opinions across. I agree with him that it helps the 'normal' people interact with each other without jumping through loops but I think that is more a benefit than a critique.
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#5Clearly someone who "once handrolled his own html code and then uploaded it using UNIX commands" is simply too Awesome for Facebook.
Only if he uploaded it via his own hand-crimped ethernet cables.
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#6He's smarter than "normal" people, and jealous that they're making Facebook lots of money.
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#7More and more I find that for people I see in real life facebook has become fairly redundant. And facebook has just clarified the reason that I don't see most of my other 'friends' in real life; I'm not really friends with them anymore.
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#8As time passes, and the users of the internet get more sophisticated, this wont seem so much like a rant, it'll seem like an opportunity for the next social networking phenomenon. The thing that replaces Facebook wont look much like Facebook. It will need to cater to what today seems like the power user.
Just my .02
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#9As time passes, and the users of the internet get more sophisticated, this wont seem so much like a rant, it'll seem like an opportunity for the next social networking phenomenon. The thing that replaces Facebook wont look much like Facebook. It will need to cater to what today seems like the power user. Just my .02
You think the users of the internet are getting more sophisticated? I'd say the users of the internet are getting less sophisticated. In the 1970s nobody without a PhD used the internet. In the early 90s you still needed a helluva lot of technical skill. In the late 90s the internet was still a bit geeky. Nowadays everybody and everything is on the internet and we've gone from Eternal September to.... some more extreme version of Eternal September (I'm tempted to say Eternal April, but that would entirely destroy the point of the metaphor).
Re: Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
#10I wish I could sign on to the damn thing and not have the first thing I feel be exasperation at the aggressive dimness of it UI and its functionality. People use Facebook because they see past the "website" and read the content. They communicate with their friends and family. How many non-technical people have you ever heard complain about email apps? They don't because they use email to communicate, not to use an em…
Yeah, horrible UI. Just has 500 million people using it voluntarily.