Except that in that article she says she quit it after a couple of months.
I read it last week, and my memory told me she said she came back to the site once or twice (maybe that was another article?)
but the point stands regarding articles like that: they skim over why the the subject is so popular or interesting to people, and many times the authors admit to still indulging in it.
― Cunga, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:45 (fifteen years ago)
its a sad form for sure particularly when people not that old indulge in it
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:47 (fifteen years ago)
Santa Doesn't Exist would like to be your friend. Accept?
― Help! I'm a bug (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:49 (fifteen years ago)
;_;
― markers, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:49 (fifteen years ago)
Everyone is on Facebook, and yet everyone kind of hates it too. So I guess Smith is just tuning into the zeitgeist...
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:50 (fifteen years ago)
you have something in common, go for it!xp
― buzza, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:51 (fifteen years ago)
dude what's with you thinking everyone is fake?
― ENBB, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:52 (fifteen years ago)
"Using Foursquare to check into anonymous Halloween sex parties really is the epitome of decadence and late capitalism excess, although I admit there is something quite adventurous and addicting about it, but really we should all stop it and here's another 2000 words about why it's pathetic that people do it."
xpost
― Cunga, Thursday, 16 December 2010 04:55 (fifteen years ago)
http://grab.by/7W7P
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:21 (fifteen years ago)
friend w/ bangs looks cuet
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)
http://i26.tinypic.com/2udyu5e.jpg
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)
:-)
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
My Top Words of 2010The top words from my Facebook status messages in 2010!1.:Waka - used 10 times2.:Flocka - used 9 times3.:Fuck - used 7 times4.:Pretty - used 7 times5.:Love - used 5 times6.:Whole - used 5 times7.:Fucking - used 5 times8.:It’s - used 5 times9.:City - used 5 times10.:Swag - used 5 times
― whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 11:57 (fifteen years ago)
1: Today - used 12 times2: Good - used 11 times3: Beer - used 9 times4: Big - used 7 times5: Old - used 7 times6: Night - used 7 times7: New - used 7 times8: Last - used 6 times9: Football - used 6 times10: Wee - used 6 times
― ploppin caps and takin names (onimo), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 12:17 (fifteen years ago)
1:- - used 5 times2:Nice - used 4 times3:Perth - used 3 times4:Sleep - used 3 times5:Bit - used 3 times6:Wrong - used 3 times7:Done - used 3 times8:Till - used 3 times9:Quite - used 3 times10:Music - used 2 times
'Perth' is a bit of an oddball. I did go to Perth this year.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 23 December 2010 01:03 (fifteen years ago)
eating -- at Hooters
― Cunga, Monday, 27 December 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)
Is facebook busted atm? It keeps saying "server reset" when I try and load it up.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)
It wasn't even working for me last night around midnight (my darkest hour)
And what's with implementing the new facebook messages gimmickfeature?
― Cunga, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)
huh. mine are BORING.
1): Friends - used 16 times2): Reading - used 13 times3): New - used 12 times4): Night - used 11 times5): Writing - used 10 times6): Tonight - used 10 times7): Last - used 9 times8): Oakland - used 9 times9): Listening - used 8 times10): Thanks - used 8 times
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:30 (fifteen years ago)
11): Lesbian
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)
My Top Words of 2010Here are top words from my Facebook status messages!1: Love - used 23 times2: One - used 15 times3: Beherit - used 14 times4: Andy - used 12 times5: Out - used 10 times6: New - used 9 times7: Lincecum - used 9 times8: Up - used 9 times9: Want - used 9 times10: Pizza - used 8 times
― ilx get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:19 (fifteen years ago)
can't seem to get my top words thing to work :(how will i ever carry on?
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:34 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah it doesnt work for me either - it just presents me with an empty FB frame page.
― Strange Crüt (Trayce), Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:44 (fifteen years ago)
one love roxy
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)
introduce a thousand re-designs of the profile page.
never fix Facebook chat.
Never change, zuckerberg's flying monkeys.
― Cunga, Friday, 31 December 2010 01:58 (fifteen years ago)
chat recently got a new notification sound
― ice cr?m, Friday, 31 December 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)
so goldman invested $500m in fb at a $50b valuation - this is madness - would anyone in the entire world be surprised if fb didnt exist in ten years
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:52 (fifteen years ago)
ya but per felix salmon all they really gotta do is herd it through the ipo at that figure and then peace out
― max, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:53 (fifteen years ago)
its so sweet to be an investment bank u just 'create value', its like being an philosophy major but u get a jet
― max, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:54 (fifteen years ago)
some of them were prob harvard philosophy majors
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:55 (fifteen years ago)
im sayin thats the madness part - we have a financial system thats all game playing at this point
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:55 (fifteen years ago)
ice cram I bet you 50 million that facebook will exist in 10 years, and if I win you need to do 50 pushups too
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:58 (fifteen years ago)
when do we ipo!
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 06:59 (fifteen years ago)
im just like cant someone murder the financial industry, its distressing
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:01 (fifteen years ago)
theyre gonna ruin us again in like six years then three years after that
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:02 (fifteen years ago)
fbook will exist but geocities 'exists' iirc
crazy valuation but u never know
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:03 (fifteen years ago)
I actually don't know how ridiculous it really is - I think fb has such a solid hold on the social network market right now, I mean ilx types might move on to something else cooler, but my grandmother is on fb ffs and prob isn't gonna switch to something else anytime soon. they (and google) are like microsoft in the 90s.
twitter otoh, complete bullshit, worth about 3 bucks
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:03 (fifteen years ago)
not my 3 bucks tho
well is passes the grandma test jeez
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:04 (fifteen years ago)
goldman valuing it that highly is itself an affirmation i guess
the valuation seems crazy more for... how they are ever going to be that profitable even if they do stay #1 social network.....fb must have some big 'plans' beyond maxing revenue from a non subscrip fee model
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:08 (fifteen years ago)
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, January 3, 2011 2:03 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah i feel like 'you never know' is exactly the attitude of the dumb money that will be left holding the bag
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:08 (fifteen years ago)
I just don't see a transition from fb to something else happening w/ half a billion people - maybe over an extended time period, but in the next 10 years? it's not like friendster, myspace etc. cause those were younger internet savvy people. so there might be a mac/linux of social networking that takes a bite from the market, I don't see a mass exodus cause the exodus-types aren't the majority of fb users anymore.
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:09 (fifteen years ago)
I think the FB valuation makes sense as long as the way our 'economy works' holds - like FB is the holy grail of information for advertisers, if FB plays its cards right they can parcel out that info for huge $$$ while reforming and reshaping the public's conception of privacy so that we become cool with Gilette showing you ads because you have a beard in your FB profile pic
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:10 (fifteen years ago)
Facebook is the trailer park of the internet.
― Bentley Rhythm Trayce (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:14 (fifteen years ago)
fb thinks they can turn on the ad faucet on like google did, which is not as easy when people arent requesting specifically what theyd like to see ads for, which is why despite having ads for a while and passing google in traffic they generate a fraction as much revenue
they also know that to stay the #1 social network whatever the fuck that will mean in ten years being a website isnt enough, they have to sort of become the internet, which is what fb connect etc is all abt
fb is a v smart well positioned company but theyve got monumental obstacles ahead
can they do it, absolutely - is their success likely enough to make them worth $50b, fuck no
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:17 (fifteen years ago)
Nah, FB is the Windows of the Internet, now. Critical mass with ppl who would never use internet apps normally has been reached. Everyone's granny only knows how to use FB and maybe google. That sort of shit embeds, it doesnt go away; if it did, Windows wouldve been superceded a long time back.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:18 (fifteen years ago)
Mind you unlike windows fb isnt an ESSENTIAL tool. Not yet anyway.... unless ppl honestly start using it for all cloud computing tasks (email etc), uggghhh.
― Ex Loin Tamer (Trayce), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:19 (fifteen years ago)
fb more essential than windows, you have other viable options for your OS, you don't have any other option for social network w/ basically everyone in the world
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:20 (fifteen years ago)
fb maybe doesn't bring in the ad revenue that google does (yet) but it's still the most visited site on the internet and the site where people spend the majority of their time online, that's gotta count for something
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:22 (fifteen years ago)
I just don't see a transition from fb to something else happening w/ half a billion people - maybe over an extended time period, but in the next 10 years? it's not like friendster, myspace etc. cause those were younger internet savvy people.
― iatee, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:09 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the moms will move to wherever their kids go and so on - but really people moving to a similar site is the least of fbs worries - the market shifting to something that hasnt been invented yet is more like it
i mean shit just look fb got more traffic than google this year
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:23 (fifteen years ago)