Facebook- A big nothing

and keep them posted on my daily doings. They love it and I have grown my business using it. It's free and it helps me reach the exact client base I want.

People use Facebook for all kinds of useful projects from local events to charity work.

Why do you hate it so much?

something that will in the long run really be a titan of benefit to us as a whole. It really only makes money for the creators. People like the true leaders of high tech revolutionized the way we do business and made us far more productive. They designed and were truly innovative. The same can be said of the titans of industry. This innovative ideas helped the country. Facebook is a nothing in the long run.

Or Stravinsky's "The Firebird"?

What does the NFL contribute to society? Isn't the NHL just a fight with a few rules and a puck?

Isn't "The Price is Right", that icon of American television, nothing more than a cleverly disguised, entertaining, hour-long commercial?

I think your ire with Facebook should be redirected to something more worthwhile. ALEC, for example.

(If you have never heard Mahler's 8th symphony, commonly called the "Symphony of a Thousand", please do yourself the favor of listening to the BBC recording conducted by Jacha Horenstein. It is, simply put, glory, from beginning to end.

edit: while you're at it, check out "Das Lied von der Erde"- aka The Song of the Earth- and Mahler's 9th, the "Long Dark Night of the Soul"

your post is irrelevant. I respect art and truly love music but what does it have to do with this discussion.

What is the dollar value of a long-lost friendship? A successful protest or act of organized civil disobedience? A boycott campaign?

Facebook makes those things a whole lot easier. And let's be honest here: the idea behind Facebook is not only no great thing, but was tried at least twice before, in GeoCities and MySpace. Facebook is the only one that got it "right", but if it hadn't been Facebook, it would have been something like Facebook. The idea behind that has been around in one form or another for a very long time, in internet terms.

Knock Facebook all you like (and there are many valid reasons to do so, privacy being the biggest), but please don't dismiss the things it's enabled people to do. There's a definite social value there, even if it can't be quantified in dollars and cents.

that has a change that is truly long lasting and leads to essentially restructuring on society.There were two great movements like this. the industrial revolution and the information age. These had long legs and created great wealth for the innovators and the middle class.
Facebook really does nothing long lasting in the sense of changing economics. It is an advertising gimmick.

That's blindingly obvious.

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FB has been great, keeps people in touch and that is all I need it to do, I few games to past the time and read reviews I ask nothing more of FB so I’m not disappointed.

My family lives in a few states. It's just another way of keeping in touch.

person that posts every time they breath - and nobody cares. When I occasionally check mine, most people have not bothered to post - including me.

Believe it or not, I think someday it will go the way of "My Space" "yahoo", etc. Just given time, a new toy will be the it place to be

and i respect true innovation not marketing gimmicks.

Sounds like sour grapes to me also.

it is in no way sour grapes.

Perhaps you'll convince you. Sure sounds like sour grapes to me and apparently many others.

... and I'm hardly a "fan" of FB, I didn't even have an account until earlier this year and then only to enable communication with my family and friends spread over many states. I have no idea what you might have "contributed" to my world, so I can't hazard any guess as to your impact on it.

I have been reunited with and the people in my field that I can now stay in touch with.
Other than that?
What does Dem Underground "do" for the economy? A bunch of lefties bitching about the Republicans, what a waste.

facebook at you. Myeh myeh myeh.

to the pricks destroying it have gotten without it?

Come on Wilt---you sound like an old man in his bathrobe screaming at the younger generation.

Facebook is immesly popular with the younger generation.

I review my kids Facebook page and it is very active with all their friends.

- you might want to plug in and get yourself up to speed as FB helped elect Obama. I'd consider that a contribution.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2008/11/19/barack-obama-and-the-facebook-election

If tomorrow we made a decision as a culture to start using paperclips as a medium of exchange, we would value them much more than we do now.

Facebook is as valuable as the market wants to believe it is.

Getting northern rescues to see and take dogs from the southeast. Many, many dogs have been saved through Facebook posts.

It is absolutely relevant, important, and powerful.

than I have in real life. I've been introduced to new music, new authors, and new artists. I've had some fantastic discussions.

As with anything else, you get out of it what you put into it.