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On the Facebook user experience
A pitch-perfect sendup of the Facebook experience...
...all of which explains why I deactivated my Facebook account a few weeks ago. Cory Doctorow wrote some similar reasons last fall. More to say later, I hope in a fuller column.
(Meanwhile, if you missed it, watch Rhett & Link's Facebook song, which they also performed at Gel 2008.)
I've been thinking about closing my Facebook account for weeks. I've found no value from it, and recently saw that my face was being used to advertise stuff to my friends because I didn't opt out of their sleezy social ad network. This post just gave me the permission I needed. Thanks, Mark! :)
This is too funny! Love the video. But unfortunately, I am to embroiled in my own addiction to give it up...
Too bad. My account has suffered no abuse. Facebook is valuable to me because I see photos of my daughters, and friends, that I would otherwise never see - it helps me stay up with their busy lives. (Especially one that's been overseas the last year.)
I use Facebook to keep touch with family, especially son and nephews at college. The FB photo album app is very good. However, I've receive "Friend" invitations from some people who I really don't consider friends. I ignore them. They'll forget they ever invited me to be their friend. It just sort of evaporates, because they really don't like me either! It's like magic.