20,000 reasons why I hate Facebook.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Facebook1. It’s a mosh pit of pictures of drunken college people and white chicks and gang signs.
2. Oh wait… that’s all

Maybe that’s why you like it, but it’s stupid. The only good thing that comes out of the FaceBook is that you are able to look that girl who’s name you can’t remember but you made out with at that party and want to call her and you know she’s a friend of a friend…

I don’t understand how so many people are in love (lust?) with it. Is it because it’s a slightly less annoying MySpace? No. Since it has been open to everyone - not just people the with .edu emails - it’s just as, if not more, in your face annoying.

Okay… is it that no one else is doing a simple social media thing like that? No. There are plenty.

It’s because they targeted college kids. Drunken college kids that don’t know how to use a computer if they arn’t looking up how to play flip-cup. This means 9999/10000 of the Facebook population do not even know that there are other social networks out there… other than Date.com

I should start my own project - using their business model.

Step 1: Hook the drunken college population on a sub-par social network(make them think they are special - it’s only a college network right?)

Step 2: Let them grow up and start real life knowing no other (good) social networks then sell ads then throw them in the face (as hard as possible so it really hurts) of the people who made you… all while opening up the doors to everyone else to make groups and spam the crap out of everyone.

Step 3: Profit.

I can’t get away from it though. Everyone is on it and I hate it. Sooo… Everyone who reads this should be my “friend” look me up, my name is Dave Winget. If you can’t beat them… network with them! Or some-such nonsense.

/sigh

GooglOWNED!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

So after the entire Facebook wars and losing out to Microsoft, Google drops a devastating Peoples Elbow by announcing that Myspace, Bebo, and SixApart are joining up with Googles OpenSocial.

This news is huge - it’s basically saying that every other social networking site is teaming up to join the fight against Facebook.

Should be interesting to see how this plays out.  What does it mean for average Joe?  Nothing really except OpenSocial should be pretty cool.

What it means for Facebook is they are either going to have to come up with some great gimmicks or be forced to join the OpenSocial project.

Point of yesterdays post:

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

If anyone was wondering what yesterday’s post was all about it was seeing how much traffic I get by writing about apple and just posting on digg… Since I roughly get about 50 views a day, I thought it would be interesting.

It sent 100 visits above the average.  It didn’t get any other diggs, but 100 more people than normal came to the site.  Just putting “Apple” in the title and submitting to digg - not even with a link-baiting title.

So, cool.   Want a bunch of extra visits to your blog?  Write about something Apple related and submit to digg :P