This is what facebook has become of late. This was not where it started from...
It started with a group of friends bored from Orkut wanting to discover another meeting place.
Slowly everyone seemed to be on Facebook - Colleagues, relatives - the kind of species that were not found on any social networking site earlier , started creeping into my Facebook account.
My timeline/newsfeed now has totally new type of posts - a joke every few minutes, old film songs from youtube, quotes the kind usually found on greeting cards, to name just a few. And few among these new friends, like to recollect their old memories by posting black n white snaps of their get-togethers - nice but only for them who are involved.
In other words, my timeline is completely hijacked by these new inhabitants and while checking my account, I can almost always hear the chorus from the song "I'm always on facebook..." dedicated to my new friends.
Few kiddos who happen to be relatives wanted to create a family tree, showing me as a relation. Family tree - on facebook? Why on earth would I want to do that?
Then there are those colleagues, with whom conversation had never gone beyond the work at hand, suddenly want to make a peep into my social networking account.
And what are you supposed to do when a barely acquainted friend of a contact pokes you. Should you poke right back? What would that imply?
Earlier, social networking in the virtual world, used to be a getaway from routine, mainly for connnecting with friends in different parts of the world. And what I came here for just gets lost within all the clutter.
Facebook has come up with categorization of friends and customization of news feed and must say that's a brilliant step taken by Team Facebook, that provides a solution to ignore those so called friends whose posts and opinions barely interest you.
Yes, it still has all the elements it started off with -- updates from friends, their opinions, pics, ... but all that now needs to be located among the so called weeds in the jungle.
It started with a group of friends bored from Orkut wanting to discover another meeting place.
Slowly everyone seemed to be on Facebook - Colleagues, relatives - the kind of species that were not found on any social networking site earlier , started creeping into my Facebook account.
My timeline/newsfeed now has totally new type of posts - a joke every few minutes, old film songs from youtube, quotes the kind usually found on greeting cards, to name just a few. And few among these new friends, like to recollect their old memories by posting black n white snaps of their get-togethers - nice but only for them who are involved.
In other words, my timeline is completely hijacked by these new inhabitants and while checking my account, I can almost always hear the chorus from the song "I'm always on facebook..." dedicated to my new friends.
Few kiddos who happen to be relatives wanted to create a family tree, showing me as a relation. Family tree - on facebook? Why on earth would I want to do that?
Then there are those colleagues, with whom conversation had never gone beyond the work at hand, suddenly want to make a peep into my social networking account.
And what are you supposed to do when a barely acquainted friend of a contact pokes you. Should you poke right back? What would that imply?
Earlier, social networking in the virtual world, used to be a getaway from routine, mainly for connnecting with friends in different parts of the world. And what I came here for just gets lost within all the clutter.
Facebook has come up with categorization of friends and customization of news feed and must say that's a brilliant step taken by Team Facebook, that provides a solution to ignore those so called friends whose posts and opinions barely interest you.
Yes, it still has all the elements it started off with -- updates from friends, their opinions, pics, ... but all that now needs to be located among the so called weeds in the jungle.
Very true. And although Facebook has added categorisation, its next to impossible to group all your contacts (friends, relatives etc) in such groups. Even if you do, you can't pick and chose them, when you group.
ReplyDeleteProbably that way twitter is better. Less people flocking there, as it is not that visually effective.