I have had it with Facebook. I seriously have. First of all, poking is weird. Flat out weird. It is an incredibly invasive adjective to use in order to get someones attention. It is kind of like on IM when someone uses the 'buzz' function. It is just creepy. A friend of mine, MP, says that poking is perfectly acceptable - but she likes Facebook and cultivates 'friends' - I have all of 9 friends and Robert Scoble is one of them, so really only 8 -- that is definitely all the effort I can extend to Facebook. The thing that kills me about Facebook is all the media coverage. Everyday there is another article out about how it is the 'adult' Myspace, or how companies can use Facebook to increase ROI or, my favorite (and what spurred this post) the Marketing Profs email newsletter promoting 'How to Reach Facebook's Millions of Members in 9 Easy Steps.' Is this coverage coming from some stellar PR team behind Facebook encouraging these stories, or is it just that the media has latched on to this the way they do so many other stories and they are planing to beat it into the ground? Regardless of where the stories are coming from, they are starting to make my ears bleed. So can we all agree that Facebook is cool, no one is really sure how to use it yet, and yes, 'friends' is a subjective term, and social networking surely is an incredible tool, blah, blah, blah and cover something else? DAMN IT - I just covered Facebook. It is like the freaking plague.
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Someone could make a lot of money offering an efficient service to make your facebook page look cool. It would generate fake but attractive/important-looking friends, put up photo-shopped photos making it look like you win awards, go on fabulous vacations, come in second in triathalons, etc. I could get VC for this....
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