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I googled this the truth about facebook to find out the truth behind this revolution. It became so big that some companies are searching for your face book or twitter account before they hire you. What ever happened to privacy?  Why are all these people posting up what they ate for lunch or if they got drunk and got some booty the night before to the internet. Its a social Phenomenon something that needs to be studied by a sociologist. If your my friend just look me up in the phone book and give me call who needs face book when there is such a thing as a phonebook?

I just don’t get microblogging. I really don’t have the desire to sit down and write all the minute details of my everyday events on twitter for instance a tweet on twitter is something like this:  I just took a shit shower and shave now I’m eating sushi and having a cold beer watching a tut on nettuts.com. From a social perspective I am building an ambiance presence with the collection of post that I make, but where do we draw the line? who do you want knowing these things about you and does that hinder how truthful you can be in your post? If your going to candy coat things in your post to make your self look good than what’s the point of tweeting it on twitter.

I just think that if your friends with someone just call them on the telephone or write them a note people are not automatons they have feelings. It would mean more to me if someone called me to just say hey I did this mundane thing today how about you. It will make me feel better then reading it on twitter.

Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t the main agency behind facebook the information awareness office of the government? Wrong or Right. My main point is this who needs facebook when you got the phonebook and thing called privacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B37wW9CGWyY

Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t the main agency behind facebook the information awareness office of the government? Wrong or Right.

Um. Wrong? It fell out of the head of Mark Zukerberg (or he stole it from his employer, if you want to believe that). Occam’s Razor says that the simplest answer is most often the correct one, so compelling evidence has to be presented that it wasn’t a product of being in the right place, at the right time, with the right friends that produced Facebook.

My main point is this who needs facebook when you got the phonebook and thing called privacy.

You aren’t compelled to put anything on a social network or microblog that you don’t want to. Some people I know have their name and some basic contact info, others have way more than I think is appropriate. Most people don’t have any more on their profiles than what you could find out by googling their name or other network sleuthing, or what is there that’s above and beyond it is totally superfluous (wow, my friend just gave the movie Cloverfield a bad review!).

Both Facebook and microblogging sites solve a problem: communcation. A phone is a clunky, slow, real-time point-to-point communication device. It’s also inappropriate to call someone up to ask what new cool thing they’ve found and then hang up on them, yet the most interesting twitter feeds are links to interesting content or information. If you’re blogging about what you ate for breakfast, nobody will care, not even your friends. If you have something interesting to say in a consise way, you’ll be a part of an active communication network.

thanks Nick
just for fun I am going to build an internet directory with codeigniter where you’ll put your full name contact info email, phone and then you either put in a school name or an interest or hobby.

Then the script will give you the contact info of the people who have the same interest, hobby or went to the same school as you with there contact info.  LIke a phone book on steroids that is what I want the script to be.

can’t think of a good name right now.

Then people have to trust you not to spread around their data and you become a mini facebook.

Interesting:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

Zuckerburg is said to have the most valued database in the world. Think of it all of that data from what people think about things to what they had for lunch… its worth alot of money. but yet they dont compromise the trust of their users… which is why it works.