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What is it about Facebook that makes some people LOSE THEIR MINDS?
It's kind of amusing. Or frightening. Depends on how you look at it.
First, there are the users. Every single time /anything/ about Facebook
changes /in any way/, millions of angry messages appear about how "teh
new FB SUX0RZ!". People create pages like "if 8M people link to this
page then Facebook will revert the latest changes". And so on.
Are people seriously THAT BORED that this is the most interesting thing
they could find to talk about? I mean, yeah, the page layout trivially
changed in some cosmetic way. And I care because...? In every case I've
seen, these "radical site redesigns" are about as radical as the
difference between Office 2000 and Office 2003 - i.e., they changed some
of the colours, and moved a few buttons around. Oh, and there might be a
couple of tiny changes which really /are/ new features.
Then there are the media companies:
http://tinyurl.com/6bkyt22
"The service will be free, but we're hoping it will drive paid
subscriptions."
Uh, yeah, IN WHICH UNIVERSE? Seriously, that's like saying "we're going
to stand on street corners and give away free Milkybars(tm). We're
hoping that if we do this, more people will go out and find places to
buy Milkybars(tm)." WTF? That is so /obviously/ never going to work. OK,
a tiny few people might not have tasted it before and might really like
it. But the rest of us are just going to buy exactly the same number of
Milkybars as before.
And then there's this:
http://tinyurl.com/5sq6cdd
I think that kind of neatly describes it. Big companies are like "OMGZ,
there are XXX billion people on Facebook! If we could just 'be on
Facebook', we could have XXX billion customers!!!" Um, yeah, that
doesn't actually WORK, dude. :-P Besides, at least half of those
accounts are people's pets. (Possibly pet rocks.) That graph makes it
plain. ;-)
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