Are You Sick Of “Web 2.0″?
Because I certainly am - I’m sick of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Yammer and all the rest. It drives me mad how much time apparently rational adults devote to communicating with their friends through those channels rather than just, you know, communicating with their friends.
One of the people I work with had a minor brain scream last weekend and took herself off everything - goodbye Facebook, farewell Twitter, bye-bye to it all. And after her immediate panic attack, she suddenly realised that all of those people she felt disconnected from were in fact all still there, and all she needed to do was choose to have a direct conversation with them, rather than just announcing stuff indiscriminately to the world.
For her, for me, and for anyone like us, Geekamania is here.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:58 am
On the whole I find Facebook very useful. It’s helped me find two friends that it otherwise would have been harder to do so. Recently I had an unanticipated rendezvous in Chamonix purely from noticing the Facebook status of one of my friends (an old colleague of ours). Having said that, it does get tedious at times and I think that there is occasionally a danger of ambience overload. I don’t use twitter as a character limit that is lower than SMS inevitably leads to a surplus of tweets and a shortage of content. The truth is that most people’s day to day is pretty dull and repetitive. Also their insights are often not that interesting or even insightful.
I admit that it became a friction point in my relationship on more than one occasion but in truth it was other only a hook to hang an argument on so Facebook per se wasn’t to blame.
Still, a few days of rest wont do any harm at all.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:08 am
More than anything I hate the tag of “Web 2.0″ It’s not 2.0 or 1.9 or 2.1 it’s just people creating more interesting / compelling websites using available technology.
Of course the valuations of some of this companies being banded around just reminds me of .com, the lessons of the past are quickly forgotten.