It's obvious the answer is corporate greed. Have more money, will spend more money, even if it's lost on useless ventures. If that big company was still small they would re-consider before wasting time and effort on changes that won't help the company.
Facebook is the target of this article for more then one reason. They have made more then one supposed change lately, and also tried to implement others that users are not happy about. So let's get it out in the open: what is going on and what am I talking about?
OK, case and point one. Facebook's recent update to the user's homepage, friends lists, etc. Facebook is now like a CNN of what your friends are doing. Unless you are a gossip queen and your favorite show is Gossip Girl, you're really going to hate facebook. People like me use facebook to connect with the people around them. Usually it can be a secondary tool of communication, with the primary method of talking to your friends being in person or over the phone. It can also be a primary tool of communication if you use applications like Speedate, or other applications where you actually meet people through the website.
But this is my problem with facebook: I don't use facebook to know what everyone is doing at all times. In fact, I find all these "news mini-feeds" running around everywhere about my friends are HIGHLY annoying. If someone comes to my page they can look at me, my car, my friends, whatever. They DON'T need to know every stupid little tidbit about me or anything that has happened in my life in the past two weeks.
But then, the site almost encourages this invasion of personal privacy, dosen't it? If you don't update the "status minifeed" then people can't see what you did that day. Stupendous! And even further, I can set my News minifeeds not to appear on other people's pages, or my own. So now my "status" and what I do everyday remains my own business.
But this is what makes Facebook facebook, right? If it didn't say what everyone is doing every minute of every day, it would be more like Myspace, right? Maybe that wouldn't be so bad. Facebook has moved away from a "social networking tool" and become a "drama for your mama" tool. You can use facebook to spy on your friends, see what they're doing, hell. You can even go spy on your ex girlfriend if you wantm ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, whatever. And if you can't view her newsfeed; no problem, just go see where she's posting. How annoying. Plus you never know who's reading what.
Honestly facebook. What is this? If the American Government wanted to know everything about everyone, all they would need to do is acquire facebook. Then they wouldn't need to use spy satellites because they'd know what EVERYONE is doing, EVERYWHERE.
This editor thinks global networking needs to take a step back and stop telling people when I do my laundry or how many advils I took last night. Who cares!
As if this isn't enough as it is, Facebook also recently took flak for attempting to introduce a clause into their privacy policy which states "all material posted on Facebook becomes the intellectual property of Facebook." After receiving angry e-mails and complaints (not to mention people starting anti Facebook legal change petitions on Facebook itself), Facebook decided to "remove the entry to the privacy policy," and also said that they will ask their members next time before they decide to make such a change.
Fat chance. As long as big business is run by moronic fat cats in Leisure Larry suits, Facebook will continue to make stupid, idiotic changes that affect it's user base negatively until everyone eventually hates Facebook (like me), deletes their entire profile, writes a negative complaint to Facebook about its service, and a couple guys in a garage come out with a new program that obliterates Facebook and leaves it weeping in a pool of its own newsfeeds regarding its demise and dismantlement.
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