I have no doubt that there are others who feel the way that I do about Facebook, but it seems there just aren't enough of us sounding our horns. Facebook continues to grow, suck in lives, and spit them out.
Yes, I will agree that its a great way to stay in touch with family and close friends but it never just stays there unless you want to be referred to as cold-hearted. What about that old high school buddy? What about that person you shared a seminar with? Before you know it, you have oodles of people bombarding you with their mundane lives, game stats, and they have too much access to you.
On top of it all, anyone else can find you at a whim and whatever you put up there about yourself might as well be permenant.
Someone, I read, once said it's like being in a cell. You sit around in your plain-jane page and write on the wall or occasionally annoucing some news.
And what's worse? People are addicted to it like crazy. All three of my co-workers seem to check it on one lunch break or another. I'm near positive that they don't have some severe addiction to it, but I know those people are out there.
Communities like Facebook are what's killing the Web. People don't go out into the Web to find something, they check to see if that person, company, group has a Facebook account. I'm starting to wonder if my days as a web designer are over before they even started because no one wants a website - they're happy with their Facebook page.
So, as a web designer and someone who likes to be in control of her domain to a reasonable degree, I refuse to use Facebook. If you want to see daily updates from me, I do use Twitter because it's a helluva a lot more simplier and straightforward.
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