Sitting on the Sidelines

So I have been sitting on the sidelines about this Facebook Privacy debate/discussion- whatever you want to call it. Articles upon articles have been written about Zuckerberg- all the pet projects that led him up to his creation of this massive network of a social site called Facebook. Here is my brief thoughts before I go to my 10:30am personal training session.

 

 

1. Facebook is what you put on it. If I put something on the interwebs- I expect if someone really wanted to find it, they could. I could be private but that would mean I have to stay off the internet. I use the FB privacy controls but I don’t expect that to stop someone to finding more about me. I think there are sites like wink, peoplefinder etc… that can find my city, state, how many places I’ve lived, age etc… 

 

2. I use Facebook as a communication tool for my friends and family. I don’t have plans to take my page down or boycott Facebook. But as with myspace…I go where the rest of my fish are.  There is a big chance that in the next year, a better social network with come out and overtake FB social presence. I was a huge myspace user until FB, came along, I even had a blog post on this:

 

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 

this facebook thing and other stuff

I think it is easier to keep this myspace account, it is too hard to start over again.  It does the same stuff,  I guess you can easily add stuff from companies if you want to but I am too lazy to create a new profile, etc... also, trying to have my friends list transferred is hard no one has a facebook acct.  Anyways, I am ranting at 5 am.  Reprise in April 08: I take that back, with different applications available, facebook is more self interactive and you can interact with your friends as well.  I do have a current facebook acct.  which do I use most?  I have a fair share of both facebook and myspace…

 

So I am saying it could happen, I could move my social network over to xyz.

3. Facebook is a business. They have to generate income and all of that other stuff that businesses have to do to make money. If they decide to change their pages every 3 or so months and make it difficult for people to adapt, they will lose users. Is Facebook gambling on their fate- My thoughts YES. There are lots of thought leaders out there that are boycotting FB and upstarts that are out there vying to become the next “myspace”, “facebook”, “twitter”, “google” etc… But in all honesty, FB has a good interface and it still is a huge community. But then again, I said this about Myspace three years ago.

 

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