Facebook Phone?!

No it's not. Eventually someone will come along with something different, and everyone will move to that. Remember Myspace? Mywhat? Yeah...

 

Why do you care so much what Facebook 'freaks' buy? Here's a tip: don't care, it'll improve your quality of life drastically.

 

I see facebook going more the way of Google, not Myspace. Google themselves are scared of the potential of Facebook.

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Potential is the key word. I see Facebook becoming less and less of a big thing. But it could go either way. After all, they have enough funding...

 

Luckily, you don't have to get it.

 

What is so stupid about it? I don't personally use it, but I wouldn't say it was outright stupid. What makes something like TB any less stupid?

 

It's not so much facebook itself that's stupid, but the way people use it. I have one because there are some people with whom it's my only means of communication, and every time I log on, there's a sea of status updates telling me about every last detail of my acquaintances' (a lot of them aren't even friends, just people who I may or may not have spoken with and have seen before who decided to add me) lives that I honestly don't care about, as well as endless vaguebooking (the act of writing an intentionally vague status update for the purpose of getting attention, usually followed by "I don't want to talk about it" when prompted for explanation.)

 

That to me just says that some people are stupid, not Facebook. I get where you are coming from though.

It is like people who bag Twitter all the time. Twitter is not stupid. Potentially it is a great tool. It is all the white-noise "I'm making a sandwich", "I'm eating a sandwich", "That was a good sandwich" type stuff that makes it seem totally pointless.

 

Right--it's not Facebook that's stupid, it's just an overwhelming population of stupid people that make Facebook SEEM stupid.

 

Good for me I don't have a facebook account

 

I've found Facebook to be useful for hosting screen shots etc I use to illustrate points in TalkBass posts.

Said pic files are too large to be TB attachments, and would likely be deleted from typical image hosting sites over time.

 

What is this "face book"?

 

Oh no! Facebook is on the way to doing part of what Google does already!

 

FWIW you can filter content that you see in your feed. I haven't tried it, but one of these days I will, when I get tired of all of it.