FistCar

I don’t have a facebook account. After myspace, I gave up on the social networking sites. I remember when I first heard about cyworld. It was a social networking site based out of Korea which launched in the late 90’s, or 2000. I signed up for an account. However, it was a south Korean company so I could not convince anyone else to join and be my friend. As a result I gave up pretty quickly. I just checked their site out and they have given up a presence in the USA altogether.

A few years later I was more than happy to sign up for friendster when one of my friends encouraged me to do so. Then when many of my friends joined it was great, what I wished for in cyworld was happening in friendster. I liked friendster greatly. However, then myspace came along. All of my friendster friends moved to myspace, and all my friends who were not on friendster started using myspace. I was happy that almost everyone I knew was on myspace, but myspace was pure crap compared to friendster. Myspace was buggy slow and looked awful. However, I put up with its crap because almost everyone I knew used it.

Then everyone moved from myspace to facebook. At this point I said enough. I found it pointless to load up all my favorite books, films, music, etc, etc to yet another social networking site. I have been very content without a facebook presence. I also came to realize that social networking sites did not offer me any value over email. Using a social networking site involves primarily sending messages to your friends. Email allows you to perform the same functionality. At this point you may be thinking “But wait, social networking sites offer more than just email, everyone can see your messages, and they have games, and virtual gifts to give!!!” Email provides all of the same functionality. Did everyone forget what the CC: field is for? Alternatively, did you know that you can put more than one email address into the To: field? They also have email games that are too numerous to mention. If you really want a virtual gift I can send you a png or animated gif of just about anything if you like.

Today my head aspolded when I read this: “Save Time Replying to facebook Messages via Email.” Great, now everyone can email their friends by routing their messages through facebook. Why is everyone brainwashed when it comes to facebook? What happened to just emailing your friends?

On a final note, the best irony of facebook lately has been furor over their privacy policy: “facebooks-great-betrayal.”

If you hate facebook’s terms of service so much quit using email->facebook->email, and just use email->email. Nuff Said.

Tags: cyworld, email, facebook, friendster, myspace, social network

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