Facebook may not be over, but it is suffering early adopter fatigue. The applications have become bloatware and user experience is very unintuitive. I find that it feels oppressive to keep my Facebook profile up to date and keep up to speed with the culled list of groups that I still belong to. So have been 'piping' in content from my flickr stream, del.icio.us, Twitter and my blog. I have tweeked the settings to minimise annoying mails and have been generally tardy in checking on to the site. If people want to get hold of me I ask them to mail me or Twitter me.
Products like Twitter, del.icio.us and flickr have a purity of purpose that Facebook lacks.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
I feel the same way. I use delicious, flickr, and twitter every day and rarely use facebook
But I believe that facebook is way more mainstream right now than the services we love
Fred
Justin Thorp
· 2 years ago
Maybe 2008 will bring with it a solution that will tie together all of the different Web apps that we use so that it'd be just as much of a compelling and simple user experience as Flickr.
Justin Thorp
· 2 years ago
err I meant as Facebook... not Flickr.
Loic Lemeur
· 2 years ago
maybe we should also meet then, you will probably like Seesmic too... I am at loiclemeur AT gmail DOT com (oh and Seesmic is funded, so it's not to ask for money, interested to meet who backs Twitter). Loic
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Products like Twitter, del.icio.us and flickr have a purity of purpose that Facebook lacks.
But I believe that facebook is way more mainstream right now than the services we love
Fred