Comments on: Has Facebook Jumped the Shark?

By: J Lane

J Lane — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:36:50 +0000

Yeah, I took a pretty hard-nosed stance on it in that post. I’ve become increasingly irritated by the fact that instead of improving integration and moving towards Web 2.0 bliss, Facebook has taken the opposite approach and opted to build a bunch of half-baked features.

I LOVE the idea of FriendFeed, but unfortunately it doesn’t have the user mass for me yet. I think that one of the coolest features is that you can create “imaginary friends”, so if my buddy Steve hasn’t signed up for the service yet, I can still create a Steve and add in all of his feeds. I can’t, however do a search on FriendFeed and find that guy I went to high school with 15 years ago.

By: GuillaumeB

GuillaumeB — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:22:34 +0000

Facebook? lol that’s a pure crap service. I never understood why it got so popular. Seriously, I mean I hate being “poked” or be “transformed into a werewolf”… It IS web 1.0. No customization option? WTF even MySpace does it.

Right no the only true social network which is both Web 2.0 and very opened in terms of customization is Yahoo! Mash. It does not receive the credits it deserves.

Besides Facebook’s policy is ridiculous. The translation is aweful and nobody is going to tell me that they can’t pay professional translators. Of course… I’m not talking abiout privacy issues…

I mean seriously how can one claim to truly share something on Facebook? You guys have all the same page!!! where’s the individuality in here??

By: trextor

trextor — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:53:59 +0000

This is exactly why I love FriendFeed and Facebook on my BlackBerry.

FriendFeed is exactly what the Facebook news feed should be.

Facebook on my BlackBerry receives all friend requests/wall posts/messages/events instantly and I can deal with them right away.

There’s absolutely no reason to visit the site except to waste time.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:11:27 +0000

Not much I say. It does let me interact with a few people who aren’t really into the internet stuff since “even” they got into it at some stage. But then, those who aren’t really into the internet social interactions don’t tend to use the facebook enough anyways.
I think it is useful for a little while for beginners as mentioned in the quote, but I think you were spot on when you said that the redundancy is the issue.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:19:39 +0000

That’s kind of what I thought, but it’s been a long time since I was in school…and we didn’t have Facebook back then. I feel old now..sigh…

By: Corvida

Corvida — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:50:45 +0000

Facebook is definitely losing. It seems it may only be relevant (yet again) to college students that depend on it for networking at school. Since I’ve taken a semester off from school, I rarely update Facebook or check for updates on Facebook. I go weeks now without visiting the site and couldn’t care less. Though, I know that when I get back to school I’ll be all over it again and wishing that the college needs that Facebook meets could be developed on Twitter or FriendFeed. Facebook definitely has the college group on lock.