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A thread not worthy of anywhere but spam... anyway...
Is it just me, or has the old Facebook essentially been replaced with a modernised Twitter? My "news page" now seems flooded with constant live "status updates" from everyone on my friends list, with very little else appearing, and it just looks a lot like twitter... with such mundane things as;
Bob is drinking tea!
Frank has a piece of toast.
Jimmy is hungry.
Such personal things that shouldn't be shared considering many "Facebook friends" are often not exactly "personal friends" such as;
Pete has just had his heart broken after being rejected by a girl
Susan F**ING HATES PETE!!! F YOU YOU PERV!!!!!
And then utterly random meaningless things that have pretty much no relation to anything whatsoever.
I'm all for status updates being used as a way to "announce news" - the kind of news not too personal to want to share it with anyone and everyone at least... and I'm ok with the silly/random/funny stuff I guess... but god dammit, most people flood it with utterly boring mundane things that NOBODY CARES ABOUT - which previously was not a huge issue as only selected status updates went in and it was interspersed with all the other Facebook things, but NOW....
Facebook has slowly been degrading from the original project which was for University students only and was "relatively mature" (you had to have an email address at a known/registered university to join etc.), and now it's turning in to the social networking equivalent of a trashy celebrity gossip magazine like "Heat!" or whatever.
Ugh.
Is it just me, or has the old Facebook essentially been replaced with a modernised Twitter? My "news page" now seems flooded with constant live "status updates" from everyone on my friends list, with very little else appearing, and it just looks a lot like twitter... with such mundane things as;
Bob is drinking tea!
Frank has a piece of toast.
Jimmy is hungry.
Such personal things that shouldn't be shared considering many "Facebook friends" are often not exactly "personal friends" such as;
Pete has just had his heart broken after being rejected by a girl
Susan F**ING HATES PETE!!! F YOU YOU PERV!!!!!
And then utterly random meaningless things that have pretty much no relation to anything whatsoever.
I'm all for status updates being used as a way to "announce news" - the kind of news not too personal to want to share it with anyone and everyone at least... and I'm ok with the silly/random/funny stuff I guess... but god dammit, most people flood it with utterly boring mundane things that NOBODY CARES ABOUT - which previously was not a huge issue as only selected status updates went in and it was interspersed with all the other Facebook things, but NOW....
Facebook has slowly been degrading from the original project which was for University students only and was "relatively mature" (you had to have an email address at a known/registered university to join etc.), and now it's turning in to the social networking equivalent of a trashy celebrity gossip magazine like "Heat!" or whatever.
Ugh.