I must admit it, I was disbelieving in Web 2.0. When these applications first came out, I kind of neglected them. I remember it well: my MSN space (however it was called) was a spam nest, as I was completely uninterested of what flavour was my classmate (incorrectly tagged by the application as "friend") party cake. I didn't give a damn. Google Maps was just a fancy toy. Amazon was just another book seller, and eBay sounded like a scamming center. The term WEB 2.0 then popped out. And it sounded like crap.
Then I slowly succumbed by them. I watched a YouTube video. I came to a link to someone's de.licio.us. Someone told me about Twitter. And I liked them.
The reason I am posting this is because I always disliked Facebook, until I started using it. All started, ironically, with a costest for Facebook application, in which I decided to give a shot. I didn't know anything about Facebook, except those annoying requests for giving hugs to people I did not even know, and those emails pushing me to block or concede.
Filtering the good contents of each site is quite a challenge. I know, the model of the long tail tells us that no matter what you do, you will always have crappy contents. But the garbage of one person is the treasure of another. The most those sites can do is to provide us a personal way to filter it. Some of them do it really well, while others have to improve it.
By Wordle
I still dismiss many many sites. I had to block I-don't-know-how-many join requests from social network sites that I am not really interested in. Until I know they are useful, I have more than enough with my Facebook (and probably a couple of sites more that I don't remember and I won't ever visit again). But all these "fancy tools" have an added-value hidden somewhere all those things you may not like. Try them before discarding them. You will be surprised on how useful you can make them be.
Then I slowly succumbed by them. I watched a YouTube video. I came to a link to someone's de.licio.us. Someone told me about Twitter. And I liked them.
The reason I am posting this is because I always disliked Facebook, until I started using it. All started, ironically, with a costest for Facebook application, in which I decided to give a shot. I didn't know anything about Facebook, except those annoying requests for giving hugs to people I did not even know, and those emails pushing me to block or concede.
Filtering the good contents of each site is quite a challenge. I know, the model of the long tail tells us that no matter what you do, you will always have crappy contents. But the garbage of one person is the treasure of another. The most those sites can do is to provide us a personal way to filter it. Some of them do it really well, while others have to improve it.
By Wordle
