So I’ve whipped up a new blog.
Long before Facebook I had a website, and then a blog where I had an outlet to write whatever it was that I fancied. An outlet for me to express myself, in the back of my mind I hoped someone would read them, find some value in them, but the real value is just getting those thoughts out of my head.
I’ve even gotten to the point that I wrote my own version of facebook, it’s fairly dated now (even more so by the time someone comes across this post) but it works.
Recently someone asked me why I thought facebook is evil. This was my response:
Facebook is too big, it has too much info so there are privacy concerns.
Facebook doesn’t show all the posts, a list that doesn’t get much action starts to get skipped because Facebook doesn’t consider the posts “important”. So Facebook is unreliable as a messaging system, and when you get invested in it, they want you to “pay” to reach all your subscribers. So they are greedy, unreliable censors. Even when you do pay, not everyone will get your message.
Aside from this list, Facebook has tons of other things, and people. Reading those posts takes a lot of time, and people get offended if you don’t read their post, accept their friendship, (unfriend them), don’t “like” their post. It is a lot of pressure and takes a lot of time.
Speaking of time, how many posts on Facebook are anything you actually care about, and how many are political posts, religion posts, cute cats, game posts, and people telling you about how wonderful their spouse/kids/life is despite the fact that you know better? My guess is, maybe 3 or 4 posts a day.. sometimes 0. So for all the time you spend on Facebook, you really just had 2 minutes worth of useful communication.