Friday, May 14, 2010

Has Facebook Jumped the Shark?

A lot of people are complaining about facebook these days. If you're on facebook, you probably know what I mean. Users are starting to feel like nothing is private anymore. Of course, you can put your account on "privacy lockdown," but this requires going through like a billion steps and then the user interface will change in a month and you'll have to do the same thing all over again. It would suck if people started to abandon facebook in droves because of collective trust issues. I can totally see why people would start to ditch it, and I think it would be unfortunate if such a great social networking concept eventually went the way of the dinosaur (or MySpace!!!). The management at Facebook needs to listen to users' concerns and change a few things. Remember: it takes a very long time to build a reputation but only one big misstep to lose it. Facebook users indirectly think about this all the time when deciding what to upload/post/tag, but now it looks like the leadership gang at Facebook might need to consider this advice as well.

Oh sorry, I thought I said I wasn't going to post any actual deep thoughts on here. My bad!!!

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