Sean's Blog

John Dvorak sure seems to think so. It’s been forever since I’ve read anything from/in PC Magazine, but I did find this interesting. You can argue the usefulness of Facebook (and there’s plenty to find useful about it), but in my opinion, it’s just yet another in a long list of sites and services. From Usenet, to AOL, to MySpace, they’ve all come, and mostly gone.

As a bit of an aside, I’ve had a Facebook account since my freshman year of college (2004), when it was still fairly new. It’s usefulness for me peaked around 2006, and has been declining ever since. Like the Internet in general, Facebook is an ocean’s worth of information, when all you really want or need is at most a bucket of water. I also find it terribly impersonal, but maybe that’s just me. For close friends and family, I get news about/from them in other ways: phone calls, text messages, and e-mails. That’s how I prefer it, and apparently, that’s what they prefer as well…