Comments on: Can Facebook achieve one-sized-fits-all? http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/17/can-facebook-achieve-one-sized-fits-all/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: jarchowk http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/17/can-facebook-achieve-one-sized-fits-all/comment-page-1/#comment-35 jarchowk Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:46:49 +0000 http://jarchowk.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-35 @FortunateSon: Well no I'd disagree, studies show social networks enable more social interaction than it represses. I love the idea of sharing, but I'll agree that a need for attention is an unhealthy thing. Reaching out to strangers though is great! @FortunateSon: Well no I’d disagree, studies show social networks enable more social interaction than it represses.

I love the idea of sharing, but I’ll agree that a need for attention is an unhealthy thing. Reaching out to strangers though is great!

]]> By: FortunateSon http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/17/can-facebook-achieve-one-sized-fits-all/comment-page-1/#comment-34 FortunateSon Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:17:38 +0000 http://jarchowk.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-34 The real problem with Facebook and various other social networking tools is that they are all inredibly short-term in their logic and they romanticize the ability to share your existance with others in an unhealthy way. We've created a society that craves more gossip, yearns for more acceptance and begs for more understanding/acknowledgement for even the most mundane things than ever before. The kicker is that we as a society scream for more attention than ever before, and do it by locking ourselves away in our offices and bedrooms, posting ridiculously inappropriate videos, messages and pictures when the simpliest answer - to go outside and interact with people - complete eludes us. We're not any busier than we were ten years ago. We think we are but in reality we just as a society have decided that it's better for people to know everything about you, before they've actually met you. Crazy. The real problem with Facebook and various other social networking tools is that they are all inredibly short-term in their logic and they romanticize the ability to share your existance with others in an unhealthy way.

We’ve created a society that craves more gossip, yearns for more acceptance and begs for more understanding/acknowledgement for even the most mundane things than ever before. The kicker is that we as a society scream for more attention than ever before, and do it by locking ourselves away in our offices and bedrooms, posting ridiculously inappropriate videos, messages and pictures when the simpliest answer – to go outside and interact with people – complete eludes us.

We’re not any busier than we were ten years ago. We think we are but in reality we just as a society have decided that it’s better for people to know everything about you, before they’ve actually met you.

Crazy.

]]> By: OldManIn2D http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/17/can-facebook-achieve-one-sized-fits-all/comment-page-1/#comment-33 OldManIn2D Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:48:00 +0000 http://jarchowk.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-33 that should read 'calls facebook a social website' that should read ‘calls facebook a social website’

]]> By: OldManIn2D http://www.kurtjarchow.com/2009/02/17/can-facebook-achieve-one-sized-fits-all/comment-page-1/#comment-32 OldManIn2D Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:47:23 +0000 http://jarchowk.wordpress.com/?p=139#comment-32 Facebook is awesome for teens, and I'm sure we all wish we had it instead of ICQ when we were younger :D (anybody who calls facebook has to be > 22 years old) I even remember my old ICQ number! So what happens when you hit adulthood? (again times of changed, this is now > 22) We need a revolution! Kurt Jarchow you will be our Stalin/Franco ... errr our Putin/Obama/Shai Agassi! We need an Industrial (not a Social) portal, a place where we (...the people of mother internet) can interact with other industrious people (..of mother internet) to improve our efficiency without drunk pictures, gossip, and identity! Facebook is awesome for teens, and I’m sure we all wish we had it instead of ICQ when we were younger :D (anybody who calls facebook has to be > 22 years old) I even remember my old ICQ number!

So what happens when you hit adulthood? (again times of changed, this is now > 22) We need a revolution! Kurt Jarchow you will be our Stalin/Franco … errr our Putin/Obama/Shai Agassi!

We need an Industrial (not a Social) portal, a place where we (…the people of mother internet) can interact with other industrious people (..of mother internet) to improve our efficiency without drunk pictures, gossip, and identity!

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