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20060907 Thursday September 07, 2006
Facebook Users Prove They're Idiots Humor

I'm an arrogant bastard.  Let's just get out of the way.  No need to tell me because I already know.  It's one of the burdens of usually being right.  Now, on with the show.

I've always had a strong dislike for those social networking sites like myspace.com and facebook.com.  I've considered them the AOL of the new century.  i.e. a place where really novice users go because they don't know any better.  AOL earned its infamy when they connected their users to the internet many years ago and USENET was flooded with with n00bs and "me too" emails.  There was nothing that AOL offered that wasn't available somewhere else, for free, and was better.  Still, it was very popular because it catered to new and inexperienced users.

AOL's popularity has waned as the general population gets more tech-saavy.  Today, if you want to find the most clueless people, you can find them at social networking sites trying to make "friends."  I try to understand why these sites are popular and the only reason I can find is that they are "easy."  These sites offer nothing new or unique but they are trendy and let you play music on your page.

Today there are news stories about a Facebook revolt over so called "News Feeds."  Apparently, Facebook users are shocked - shocked! - that if you post lots of personal information about yourself on a public web page that everyone can see it!  Oh, the pitiful life of a n00b!  Now the lazy stalkers can track your every move instead of just the vigilent ones.  RSS: Really Sinister Syndication

Facebook's response is also amusing: "we agree, stalking isn’t cool"  Sounds like that should be your company motto since MySpace already has, "MySpace: not just for pedophiles anymore!"

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Hello,

I'm not sure this is the right place for my complains. But at least I hope you will be able to understand me.

I was really frustrated with the last SUN SDN newslatter that invited me to... MySpace.

I've blogged about in on
http://www.oredale.com/blogs/index.php?blog=6&title=why_the_future_sun_does_not_need_me&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

I really hope someone from Sun will pay attention to my rants...

Posted by Ivan on October 12, 2007 at 08:46 AM PDT #

I'll see if I can you some answers.

The MySpace page is probably part of a larger initiative to establish a "presence" in as many places as possible.

The Firefox issue is more serious. It doesn't work for me and that is a problem. I have taken the first steps in finding the owners of that site.

Posted by Kevin on October 12, 2007 at 09:14 AM PDT #

The broken link has been fixed. It was actually a backend server problem and not directly related to Firefox.

As for the MySpace page, Sun is actively developing communities in as many places as possible. There's lots of new technology out there and some of it has value and some of it doesn't. Experimenting with something new is not bad as long as we don't cut off the "legacy support" for our existing customer and community base. The MySpace page is not intended to replace any existing developer network asset. It's just another conduit into the network.

Thanks for giving us a chance to respond!

Posted by Kevin on October 12, 2007 at 10:41 AM PDT #

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