by Crasp » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:26 am
amazing cynicism. facebook is fantastic, it lets me keep up to date with my old uni friends i lived with but now live hundreds of miles away from, it lets me track nights out my friends are going on, it lets me plan things like glastonbury festival arrangements, gives me the opportunity to find people i lost contact with, and keeps a collection of photographs that are shared communally i otherwise wouldn't ever have.
now, i understand the myspace hate thing. its just a scenester thing for kids with fringed haircuts, but facebook actually has a useful application for most people interested in having a social life.
besides, what you havent considered is the future application of software like facebook in the workplace. it isn't used now, but when my generation are the majority of the office workforce, you will see share-point style notification system office software very similar to facebook which will cut down on the duplicates and volume of work massively. i havent just pulled this out of a hat either, ive been discussing it with a friend of mine who is currently responsible for developing a way to implement this into very large networks for accenture, one of the leading IT consultancy firms in the country.
amazing cynicism. facebook is fantastic, it lets me keep up to date with my old uni friends i lived with but now live hundreds of miles away from, it lets me track nights out my friends are going on, it lets me plan things like glastonbury festival arrangements, gives me the opportunity to find people i lost contact with, and keeps a collection of photographs that are shared communally i otherwise wouldn't ever have.
now, i understand the myspace hate thing. its just a scenester thing for kids with fringed haircuts, but facebook actually has a useful application for most people interested in having a social life.
besides, what you havent considered is the future application of software like facebook in the workplace. it isn't used now, but when my generation are the majority of the office workforce, you will see share-point style notification system office software very similar to facebook which will cut down on the duplicates and volume of work massively. i havent just pulled this out of a hat either, ive been discussing it with a friend of mine who is currently responsible for developing a way to implement this into very large networks for accenture, one of the leading IT consultancy firms in the country.