Comments on: Facebook

By: vince

vince — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:33:01 +0000

Facebook is a place to share fun, lighthearted content… It’s also a place to share a moment in time that others like or relate to–especially through pictures. What Facebook is not a is a place of great substance; a place to share thought-provoking ideas; or a place to engage in meaningful discussion. At least this is my experience… Which is kind of sad really.

I agree with you, Danielle. I still believe there is a social experience missing that Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have yet to provide.

By: Drew Meyers

Drew Meyers — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:29:01 +0000

“When I put up a new post on my blog, even if I get no comments, few tweets, few pageviews, I feel good. Writing something and publishing it here feels like making a small creation, revealing a small bit of myself, offering up a tiny sliver of something new that I made today.”

Likewise. I love the feeling of publishing a new post on my own blog – because, even if no one sees it right away or comments, it’s a tiny sliver of the true me being exposed to the world.

By: Keeg

Keeg — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:22:43 +0000

Beautifully said Danielle. I have been working on getting my blog back up for much the same reason. I really appreciate the sincerity of this post.

By: Thomas Knoll

Thomas Knoll — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:16:03 +0000

I’m a bit schizophrenic about these social channels. On one hand I don’t obsess over them the way many people I know do. I spend maybe 8 minutes a day actually looking at the feed. Most of the time I spend there is related to private groups, or just sharing because it’s a “channel”. On the other hand, I’m interested in social interactions in a very *deep* way, and I find interesting ways to build connections on each of facebook/twitter/linkedin/foursquare/path/email/plus The way some people like to tweak SEO, or A/B testing copy, etc… I like to experiment with connections and trust and relationship building.

I guess my point is. I don’t care if people click like on *my* ‘content’, but I love learning that clicking like on someone *else’s* post “makes their day”. And, no matter how much we argue over whether or not is *should* makes someone’s day. The reality is, it does.

still exploring,
TK

By: Lizelle

Lizelle — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:53:56 +0000

I’m excited that somebody else has this perspective. I wrote a post about it a while back (lizellevanvuuren.com/does-facebook-matter), honestly I’d love for Facebook to be what I think is valuable = a platform for interaction, but honestly it’s just a publishing platform that now has so many “rules” as to whom actually see’s your message or not that I find myself more frustrated when using it then anything else. Social networks, niche one’s which I feel are creating way more value, like the one’s you mentioned; Medium, Svtble, Tumblr and others, are seemingly the future. Thanks for sharing your point of view here Danielle.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:40:37 +0000

I completely agree.

We got so excited as a society that we could have all these connections… now that we’re used to them, we’re like “now what?” Facebook has proven that they aren’t good at answering that question, so we wind up splintering into little overlapping subsets of photo sharers or whatever new network pops up.