The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.

by pgsandstrom • 12 years ago

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poopsintub• 12 years ago

The writer seems to be in a period of his life where he is neither young enough or old enough to find it truly useful, which would be college or as grandparents. -I vaguely skimmed the article...

smacktoward• 12 years ago

This article is kind of all over the place. I did find one idea in it to be pretty powerful, though:

An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures.

It made me think of a world where instead of Facebook being a monolithic app, it were instead a sort of service bus connecting interactions people made through a panoply of social apps. Want to share links, there's a dozen apps that do that. Want to post notes, there's fifteen apps to choose from. But Facebook is the glue that connects them all together, that wires the users of one up to all the others.

I dunno how realistic that idea would be, but it would certainly be more fun than a world where there's One Social App and the only features you get are the ones it chooses to give you. Oh well...

The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.

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