| I fully agree, but don't find the apps to be that bad. I just declined them when my friends added me, and for the most part I don't get a bazillion invites to install some stupid fucking waste of time. Overall I find it very handy for staying in touch with friends or finding someone you only briefly met, organizing parties/trips, sharing pictures of said parties and/or trips, and that kind of thing.
People who dislike it because of the voyeurism or attention whoring are I think totally missing the point. You don't have to do any of that shit if you don't want to. They've done a pretty damn good job of providing privacy options to disable features you don't want, and with the recent addition of multiple friend lists it's much easier to limit certain people to only very limited profiles and information about yourself.
Of course, some people are fucking morons and don't realize that anything that's posted on Facebook essentially becomes public information. I look forward to my generation entering politics and other positions of power and scrutiny. I can hardly wait to see pictures of them snorting coke or getting a lap dance show up on the front page news.
That said, the link above is really interesting. Sounds to me like Zuckerberg is a total dick if half of that has any truth to it. But you know what they say about nice guys. |