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The Facebook Dilemma
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Update: Darn! Comments weren’t working while the discussion was hot! I got a huge spike of hits from this one too… feel free to comment now…
Or “Why The Video Phone Went the Way of the Dinosaur”
First, a little context. This morning, Facebook, the huge college-turned-global social networking site, released a new feature known as Feeds. Essentially, Feeds are a down-to-the-second record of everything you do on Facebook, whether it be adding a picture, adding a comment to someone’s profile, changing your profile, joining a group, even getting “in a relationship,” and Feeds are public for all of your friends to see. There’s even a “Master Feed” on everyone’s front page that shows you all of the news related to all of your friends’ accounts. That’s right, it shows you, all in one place, what everyone else did/is doing/wrote/thought about/uploaded/RSVP’d to/created/hooked up with/etc!
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