Yes, they are crap. People invite me to join facebook now every day. Often the same people who complain we live in a surveillance society, and now they are voluntarily adding all their movements, thoughts and desires to one big, American, members only database of everything everyone ever does. I will confess, FB does make for easier organisation of evenings out in some cases, but you CAN'T EVER DELETE YOUR PROFILE - you have to go from thing to thing removing each item individually, even when these are things added to your account by others - messages and such.
To my mind, if I open an account I should be able to close it with even fewer clicks. There's too many sites requiring passwords today - this is why I use Google, Google mail, pages, reader, Blogger, Picasa and so on - one account and one password for all the things I need. Now, I might consider an Orkut account, as Orkut is the same as facebook but there's apparently no ninja pirate zombie spam arriving in your inbox daily, and it is compatible with other competing services nowadays as well - unlike Facebook, which talks to nothing but Facebook and makes it rather hard for you to get rid of things you don't want.
As a useful tool in some respects, I might have kept my facebook account, but I figured what the hell - just get rid of it and check other's pages occasionally to keep abreast of things. What's this? You need an account to view accounts? Why? Can't be for security as anyone can make up a new account. A simple numbers-growing exercise at the expense of convenience is all that is. Well bollocks to inconvenient things designed to make your life simpler, say I.
In other news, passed my driving test. It was unpleasant.
To my mind, if I open an account I should be able to close it with even fewer clicks. There's too many sites requiring passwords today - this is why I use Google, Google mail, pages, reader, Blogger, Picasa and so on - one account and one password for all the things I need. Now, I might consider an Orkut account, as Orkut is the same as facebook but there's apparently no ninja pirate zombie spam arriving in your inbox daily, and it is compatible with other competing services nowadays as well - unlike Facebook, which talks to nothing but Facebook and makes it rather hard for you to get rid of things you don't want.
As a useful tool in some respects, I might have kept my facebook account, but I figured what the hell - just get rid of it and check other's pages occasionally to keep abreast of things. What's this? You need an account to view accounts? Why? Can't be for security as anyone can make up a new account. A simple numbers-growing exercise at the expense of convenience is all that is. Well bollocks to inconvenient things designed to make your life simpler, say I.
In other news, passed my driving test. It was unpleasant.
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