Indeed Facebook has many uses such as integrating your online scores, news, etc gaming life into one place. It's great for gathering news feeds from various sources (when they profile you correctly and actually send you feeds you give a toss about and not Farmville 2 stories about some friend you barely talk with making fuel). It's a very useful tool for almost everything. I wonder how we lived without it. Well, I guess there weren't serious online games until recently. There were newspapers, too. And you wrote people letters or phoned them... Come to think of it isn't Facebook a little gimmicky? Wouldn't it be better to have a centralised social-network site for gamers? Might be better, I think, because then you wouldn't have all the extra bulk of Facebook like pokes and casino apps and crap. I'm picturing something pretty awesome here. News would be a pity but we'll always have papers, TV and radio along with feed-sites so it isn't much of a loss.
So cons are loss of it all being in one place.
Pros are dedicated things you want when you want them, no constantly-changing UI, no inaccurately profiling you, no platform for your self-obsessed friends to post pics about what came out in this morning's stools aaand no more bloody farmville.
But I foresee a problem: wouldn't my service end up just like Facebook? Yes, probably. People love a platform. They want the world to know about their sex lives, their thoughts, their feelings, etc. We're quite the exhibitionist species that way; kings and queens of our own soap-opera, "Me".
In the end, it's not Facebook, it's us. It's sad. We've actually become integrated into online life to the point where we need it as much as it needs us.
I suppose the logical thing to do is disconnect. I think I will, too. But obviously tomorrow as I have to say goodbye to everyone. Wait, make that next week because one of my friends has her birthday on Sunday and I want to post a picture of a cat with a birthday hat on her timeline. Actually Monday's out, too, because it's my best friend's anniversary and I have this hilarious eCard I just have to post.
Maybe I'll have to plan this long-term...
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