Shaking Facebook

Surfing across the feeds I found this – an interesting find just as I was getting a bit tired of Facebook as well – dealing with very points that the article talks about. Most specifically 2, 3 and 5.

  • In-box Contamination: Facebook works right now because you decide how big or small you want your community to be. As much as Facebook is hot, it’s still manageable in terms of deciding who you want to invite/accept as a friend. But what happens – as Fred Wilson points out – when you’re swamped with Facebook invites? Suddenly, Facebook runs into the same annoying problem as Plaxo and LinkedIn as your in-box gets invitation contamination.
  • Application noise. For all the excitement about Facebook opening its API to the world, it’s also more noise for users. I can’t tell you how many multiple invitations I’ve got for Flixster, for example. It’s already getting annoying. This is an issue Fred Wilson focused on.
  • Facebook Fatigue: Right now, Facebook is fun, it’s new, it’s a novelty but how useful is it really? How long before the millions of people who have piled into Facebook stop checking their profiles every day or, for that matter, every week.

The ads that seem to show up with more frequency are getting annoying – especially when they are inline on the News Feed, the application noise and no way to really filter the feed in any way to stay in touch with those you interact with more often – yes there is the “nice up/down” sliders, but those really don’t seem to work that well.


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