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Facebook to me is hot garbage, cult of the celebrity trash.

Nobody I know in my circle of IRL friends and family uses it anymore when you can sign up to twitter under a nym and directly ask guys like Charlie Miller questions about exploit payload delivery instead of being drowned in an avalance of spam wall posts, annoying quiz results, farm watering requests, and endless PMs from ex girlfriends or people from highschool you have no intention of talking to ever again because you didn't like them then, why would you want to be their e-friend now.

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Interesting you bring up "cult of the celebrity".

To me, twitter is the ultimate example of the "cult of the celebrity", as most people on twitter seem to follow celebrities, in order to read what vacuous comments they can fit into 140 characters.

On the other hand, Facebook is the ideal system for me to keep in contact and up-to-date with friends and family who live very far away from me, and see what is going on in their lives.

Now, obviously we've just had different views. Despite the fact I've tried, and failed, to get "into" twitter more than once, enough clever people use it that I assume I am missing something, or it just isn't my vibe. But for me Facebook has a much, much higher quality vs. garbage ratio than Twitter.

I wonder if there's a market for something in-between. A Facebook-alike service with no apps, no advertising and nothing but posts containing original content (no 'share').

a decentralized phone app social network would work to cut down on costs because you'd make no income :P

i prefer to have a private jabber/OTR chatroom open with a bunch of friends in it to talk to each other back and forth like a slow room IRC channel all day. privacy ftw so nobody ends up fired when going on a rant about a project, their company or relationships.

> jabber/OTR

That would be ideal, but I doubt the US government would allow a private communication platform to operate on a large scale. Unless it was hosted outside of the states, it would be quickly backdoored for their benefit.

I've had ideas like that in the past (think Twitter crossed with GPG), but I think you'd struggle to get people adopting the platform.

Diaspora? I don't remember if you could share a post of not. I tried to use it. A social network where you know exactly one person isn't so social.

Emphasis on Facebook to YOU.

I don't have any of the same problems you do. So for me there is a strong and obvious relationship between the maturity of your friends and the maturity of their posts.

I've never had an account, this is from my observations of every single facebook page I've ever seen from coworkers, friends and girlfriends.

Do you guy's enjoy circle jerking around tagging each other's pics and liking stuff? Sounds pretty awesome

> Do you guy's enjoy circle jerking around tagging each other's pics and liking stuff? Sounds pretty awesome

I simply use it as a shared address book/messaging/event system.

It always amazes me that a single web site can evoke such bizarre reactions such as this.

Yes, person who doesn't look at Facebook, please tell us what Facebook looked like 4 years ago. That is incredibly relevant.

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