The invention of the year! Yes, it's got to be Facebook.
All these while I have always hated MySpace, Friendster and the likes because they are just full of rubbish. Young kids and adults who like to be kids continuously dumping shit into them creating a garbage bin rather than social networking web sites. Then came Facebook, with much neater, uniformed and more grown up, controlled look and feel. I just fell in love with it immediately, and could not stop being online even early in the morning in the toilet - thanks also to my ugly P990i.
What amazes me the most is the fact that since I signed up I have managed to touch base with some many of old friends from schools, university and previous companies where I worked. After a while, even my boss got on board and one or two other key persons of the company. There was this idea from my financial controller to get everyone in our department to be on Facebook which I think is brilliant!
Having said that, Facebook does have the potential of becoming a rubbish dump too with increasing numbers of so called "applications" are being developed by some and getting added every single second, and distributed to thousands of people, creating in way a new family of spams to members of the network. I'm getting like 20 invitations to add these applications daily and they only way to wipe them clean is by deleting each one of the applications individually. Such a pain in the arse! Bear in mind I only have around 160 friends and only a handful are really active, and excited (sometimes too excited) about these applications and cannot stop inviting the rest of the world to join them. There needs to be some mechanism to better, more easily control this craze over the applications.
Other that, Facebook is indeed a masterpiece of social networking web sites.
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