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10/07/2011
Issue 52

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It’s all about social networking this week. A few weeks ago a group of investors including Justin Timberlake brought Myspace for less than 10% of what Rupert Murdoch’s News International paid back in 2005. ($35m against $580m).

Also a few weeks ago another small company called Google announced a site called Google +. This is in essence Google’s version of Facebook and early adopters (including Facebooks Mark Zukerberg), who have been personally invited to sign up have generally had good things to say. Only time will tell when it’s opened up to general public.

One of the great things to come out of the internets is a little site called Facebook. The site itself is largely ok, the problem I have is the people on it and how they use it.

My first grip is people setting up personal Facebook pages for companies, bars etc. Personal pages are for PEOPLE and not inanimate objects. If you want to add your business to facebook you create a page (the link is at the bottom of every Facebook page). Now you might things I’m being silly but any tool should only be used for its purpose. If I used a chisel as a screwdriver or a handle of something as a hammer carpenters the world over would equally complain and as an IT geek it's my porogative to whinge. Setting up companies as personal profiles brings many problems. The first is you have constantly login-logout to move between your personal page and business page. On the receiving end nothing annoys me like when you receive a message saying “this company” wants to be your friend. Does that mean it will offer me friends rates or send me a card on my birthday? I think not. I’m more than happy to “like” a company when it has a page but the former.. NO!

My second gripe is the number of friends people have. This is out of envy but it seems like people are measuring their importance by that number. For (non celebrity) people with 500+ friends I would ask “how many of those people have you been in contact with over the past year?”. I bet the answer wouldn’t be more than 200. Last year I had a bit of a cull and went from 420 to 220 without so much as a sniff. Of course other people say, like twitter it allows people to see what I’m getting up to. The only problem is if they are following 500+ people their wall is just flooded so much detritus that you can’t find stuff about people you are actually interested in.

The editor

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