Comments on: Why Facebook Will Fail http://anthonylewis.com/2009/06/07/why-facebook-will-fail/ Just Another Geek Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dee http://anthonylewis.com/2009/06/07/why-facebook-will-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Dee Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:24:30 +0000 http://anthonylewis.com/?p=190#comment-185 I think it will last til the next wonderful thing comes along. I agree with you about setting up blogs and subscribing to each other's feeds but it seems like my blog and facebook don't seem to crossover. There are a few folks that intersect but for the most part they were already readers of my blog. I forget to update on facebook until my daughter sends me a message and reminds me. I'm not sure what the appeal is. I have taken a bunch of the silly quizzes and it bothers me that it asks you to agree to let it access all your friends info. The walled garden thing seems to be an illusion that makes people feel safer when perhaps they are not? You can't get your stuff out, but THEY can. Facebook quiz spam is probably responsible for the phone calls telling me my car warranty is up... Amazing to me is that even though it may be a walled garden - the garden has gotten huge and people say and do stuff on there without thinking about who all is reading about it. Maybe they don't care and if that's the case, more power to them. There have just been a few cases where something was posted that I really didn't want to know about which to be fair there may have been some things that people didn't want to know about me as well. * I can subscribe via rss to a friends pics or notes or something - I did it last week. Can't remember now exactly which part but it is still working. I think it will last til the next wonderful thing comes along. I agree with you about setting up blogs and subscribing to each other’s feeds but it seems like my blog and facebook don’t seem to crossover. There are a few folks that intersect but for the most part they were already readers of my blog. I forget to update on facebook until my daughter sends me a message and reminds me.

I’m not sure what the appeal is. I have taken a bunch of the silly quizzes and it bothers me that it asks you to agree to let it access all your friends info. The walled garden thing seems to be an illusion that makes people feel safer when perhaps they are not? You can’t get your stuff out, but THEY can.

Facebook quiz spam is probably responsible for the phone calls telling me my car warranty is up…

Amazing to me is that even though it may be a walled garden – the garden has gotten huge and people say and do stuff on there without thinking about who all is reading about it. Maybe they don’t care and if that’s the case, more power to them. There have just been a few cases where something was posted that I really didn’t want to know about which to be fair there may have been some things that people didn’t want to know about me as well.

* I can subscribe via rss to a friends pics or notes or something – I did it last week. Can’t remember now exactly which part but it is still working.

]]> By: julie http://anthonylewis.com/2009/06/07/why-facebook-will-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-180 julie Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:14:46 +0000 http://anthonylewis.com/?p=190#comment-180 Hummm, food for thought...for sure. Hummm, food for thought…for sure.

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