Comments on: Facebook’s snail mail and social network fatigue

By: Bloggin’ With Amaldo » Blog Archive » Facebook Is For The Dogs

Bloggin’ With Amaldo » Blog Archive » Facebook Is For The Dogs — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:59:15 +0000

[...] I happened upon Churbuck’s post around the time I was “connecting” on LinkedIn with past coworkers and trying to loogle them. It started out quite innocently with me trying to find one of my good friends on there who is a student at UCLA’s management school. I realized just how annoying it is to be prompted for the umpteenth time to upgrade my account with that tiny yellow bar of a button that kept flashing every time I tried and failed to click away from the page. Why must I be menaced so? What had I done but been a happy user who made frequent visits to the site and spread good word about its attributes? When did LinkedIn start bugging me to upgrade my membership? Thinking back, I had started noticing this a while back, but it took a few months to settle in my mind to the point of distracting me from enjoying the site. Unfortunately around the time it settled I was also on Facebook. My friend had sent me another of those SuperWall pictures which required me clicking on the image, but before I could get to that image I was navigated to yet another page which prompted me to send the very image to all of my friends before I was allowed to open the actual image. Thankfully it also selected all of my friends as recipients of this picture so it saved me the work of having to send a picture of a dog to 50 of my nearest and dearest. [...]

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:40:27 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Take ‘em all and throw ‘em off a bridge. They’re all like a bad corporate holiday party that just won’t end.

By: Derek Slater

Derek Slater — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:14:42 +0000

I am slowly finding some value in LinkedIn, connecting with new writers and sources. Have a Facebook page just in case it turns out to be important.

Now getting invitations on Spock. Don’t care. I’m maxxed out.

By: Lisa --

Lisa -- — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:05:32 +0000

OK, I just signed up for Facebook because my employer urged me to be in communication with my marketing colleagues. I’m in communication with some of them but precious little marketing discussion is happening.

I am officially old, I guess. I just don’t see the value here. I also have a MySpace account because that’s how my husband’s adult kids like to communicate but I have to say, between the both of these “waves of the future”, I’m stumped. Can’t e-mail really just do the same thing? What am I missing???????

By: Jim Forbes

Jim Forbes — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:19:43 +0000

LinkedIn sucks dead baby through a straw. Plaxo is the worse. and I agree Facebook is little more than a major player in a fade.

I’n also in several Ning groups and have come to the conclusion that it really sucks.
It’s most ntoable use for me ina high school graduating class reunion site. the bottom line: I didn’t like many of those people when I was a kid, so sod them now. besides the four or five chums from my youth are still good guys and in my life. the other people are 60 year old right wing bastards! And, I really don’t want to look at electronic versions of the chick’s scrap booking projects that feature pictures of their toothless kin in rural ARizona, let alone pix of their ugly-pass pet Gila monsters. Jesus, I don’t have the time to keep up with their crap. And most of all I don’t want some ancient hag twittering me about her incontinence or some former jock turned road worker using twitter to tell me about his prostate or recent bowel movement.
That’s my two cents.

Jim Forbes