Facebook F***s up!
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It’s everywhere from CNET to GAWKER. Facebook has yet again released the “stupid” in the biggest screw up since Beacon. So why is anyone surprised by this? I have said it before and I’ll say it again, once Social Networks open the gates and are no longer a gated community they also let the stupid pour in, in both mind, users, and application development.
I am so close to just killing my Facebook account. Not only am I tired of the stupid apps status updates, now I have no way of setting my own privacy levels. Facebook, you know who you sound like right now? Microsoft when they released Vista (crap). You have taken the stupid road, the short bus if you will. You have gone down the “We know what is best for you” path. Guess what, I know what is best for me and what I want. Setting my own degree of privacy should be an option PERIOD!
I’ll give it to you that Facebook is worth millions, they have a ton of money. I am also really beginning to understand something. When companies get big and all they see is the bottom dollar, they get dumber. It all becomes more about their advertisers and who they can please. Well you seem to have forgotten something Facebook. WE are the ones who made YOU. YOUR USERS! NOT your advertisers. Not the morons who created the stupid apps. WE did.
So Facebook enjoy the revenue you are going to get out of the less technically educated. The ones who will play the stupid apps and the crap ads in your sidebar. One day you’ll wake up and realize, you’ve become Myspace.
I think we should go back to the drawing board on Friendmenow.com. What do you think Brian? You game?
UPDATE! Gawker has released a Restore your privacy on Facebook Manual
Bush White House Generated 234,042 Emails Per Day? – An Explanation
Roughly 22 million missing e-mail messages from the Bush administration’s tenure in the White House over a period of 94 days were recently recovered. Gawker Editor Adrian Chen did the math, which translates to an estimated 1,000 messages per staffer, per day.
Insane? For anyone who gets their news online this will probably seem quite insane at first glance. But upon further reflection, 1,000 messages by a group of barely computer literate people is more than achievable.
It comes down to one very simple principle: E-mail is their primary form of communication. It’s their preferred form of communication and it replaces all other useful methods that others might use to better suit a situation.
No Instant Messaging
Instead of Instant Messaging, they use e-mail. A 15-minute conversation can multiply into 30 to 40 back and forth e-mails that aren’t grouped very well in Outlook and duplicate the text from the previous message every single time.
No Twitter or Yammer Use
The Bush administration, or hell, any Government we’ve ever had (including the current one) has yet to truly experience the micro-messaging tools like Twitter and Yammer. So E-mail has to be used in this way too. How many times on a busy day do you update your Twitter feed? Well each of those would be an additional email.
That Damn ‘Reply To All’ Button
Then there’s the notorious “Reply to All” button. I have no sympathy for the sons of bitches who chose to use this method of mass e-mail anarchy to inform all parties involved of every portion of the disjointed conversation. It seems to happen quite a bit in the office world and even outside of that to be completely honest. People aren’t too keen on chat rooms and so they don’t allow this to become a possibility when they need to communicate an entire message to a whole group of people.
Unfortunately, our government has the burden of having to keep all communication both archived and secure at all times. Right now the only form of communication that any government or business will even consider using to do this is E-mail. If 22-million messages can get lost, something isn’t working. We need a better communication tool that caters to both security and record-keeping and we don’t have one. More than that, we have plenty of people who don’t want to budge from their preferred form of communication, even if it bombards them with over 1.000 per day.
The Social Media Guru!
This is beyond hilarious!
NRod is a Public Relations Pimp
My man Neal Rodriguez is such a PR Pimp it is crazy! He actually (no BS) was my personal trainer via Twitter!
That’s right he tweeted my work outs for the morning and helped me bring sexy back! The man can boost your Social Media Profile and make it look like a work of art comparable to the Mona Lisa!
Seriously Neal is the man! As a Social Media player and contributor to Social Media Rage we adore the guy. He is straight up one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet in Social Media, so that’s why we took this jab at him.
Love ya Neal,
Your friends at Social Media Rage!
Check out Neal at NealRodriguez.com/vlog!
Social Media Revolution
Via SocialNomics
What’s a Social Media Douchebag?
What defines a Social Media Douchebag? Louie may not know, but he knows one when he sees one.
Nails it!
Browser Cache Rage!
via Tom Cheredar (Tched)
How the “Visitors” really found us.
Sometimes it’s too Social.
Having Social Media as a hobby can be sometimes a little invasive. Like most techies and internet lovers, I subscribe to a lot of trade magazines. The magazines come to my home and quickly end up in the rest room. I mean come on, who can honestly not say they do not read in the rest room?
I am not the only person who suffers from this affliction. I have had discussions with a lot of Social Media enthusiasts, who say if something is going well, and “It’s going to pop”, they carry the laptop or smart phone into the rest room to monitor their contents progress. *cough* Gerri *cough*
So, back to my original point. I tend to read trade magazines in the restroom, and I really start getting into an article. The articles are usually well written, and just long enough for me to finish my business. Here’s where the problem happens to be.
As a long time user of Social Media, you tend to get to know people. You see them in the Social space all the time. Now at the end of this well written article in this trade magazine, what do I see? I see a familiar face staring back at me in the small author bio. Come on man! Now it seems that this person has invaded my private time. A person I know from the Social Space has written an article that intrigued me during my private time. Seems kinda weird me.
I am not saying I read these persons articles while only in the rest room. I stumble across articles all the time in print publications that friends of mine have written, not only there but on the radio as well.
I have a nice long commute everyday, so I usually listen to NPR when I am not blasting music. During these trips as Social Media or “New” Media has begun to take it’s strangle hold on society, more and more stories about Social Media are making the news at a national level. It’s always fun to hear a Social colleague on the radio. So far it has happened about three times.
So now my question, is Social Media too Social or has being connected become less private?
Social Blade Theatre Presents: Tom Joins Facebook.
These guys rock. When SMR launched they had us on to talk about the project. A really cool group of people with a podcast I highly recommend!
Check out the Social Blade crew at Socialblade.com/show