{"id":22,"date":"2008-04-27T06:29:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T06:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-04-27T06:29:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T06:29:16","slug":"the-five-phases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"The Five Phases of Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you thought Facebook was a time-drain before, now they’ve gone and added Chat.<\/a>   Their stock price notwithstanding, these clever folks are taking notice of how annoying Facebook’s become.  Between their choice of Billy Joel’s "We didn’t start the fire<\/a>,"  for the melody, and replacing it with "we’re getting sick of facebook," LLP81’s video critique is one of the funniest things I’ve seen online in a while.  What are your thoughts on Facebook? <\/p>\n

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Facebook is both oddly addictive and utterly senseless.  Doc Searles<\/a>
\npresented a thoughtful critique at last year’s Le Web 3 conference.   This
\nslide presented a gentle criticism of Facebook:<\/p>\n

\"Absurdgardens\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here, for your consideration, are the Five Phases of Facebook:<\/p>\n

1 – Giddy infatuation – "Facebook, I can’t wait to check you!!!  How have I lived without you?  You complete me."
2
\n– Cool enthusiasm – Facebook, you are the amazing.  (Read: I’m not sure
\nwe’re meant for each other, but I will stick with you.)
3 – Breakup
\n& Abject Neglect – Facebook, you’re not at all who I thought you
\nwere.  You’re needy, nagging and more than a little cheezy.  I don’t
\nwant to compare my friends. I don’t want to send someone a pixel
\ndrink.  Frankly, I don’t know what I saw in you. 
4 – Annoyance –
\n"Why do you keep sending me messages?  I am changing my privacy
\nsettings.  I am deleting applications.  Don’t bother me."
5 –
\nAcceptance – "Well Facebook, at least you got me back in touch with
\nsome old friends and remind me about birthdays I’d otherwise forget.
\n(With apologies to  Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross<\/a> ) <\/p>\n

A big part of Facebook’s charm can be explained by the notion of reinforcement<\/a>.
\nAlthough most of the communications from Facebook are nonsense (though
\nI am so glad I know what Star Trek Character I am)  we’ve invested in
\nour profile pages and there’s the occasional lost friend who finds us.
\nI think that blogs are better suited to maintaining one’s personal
\nspace on the web–they’re open compared to Facebook’s walled garden and
\nare more suited to customization.  But Facebook’s scaffolded approach
\nmakes it easy to establish an online presence.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

big part of Facebook’s charm can be explained by the notion of reinforcement. Although most of the communications from Facebook are nonsense (though I am so glad I know what Star Trek Character I am) we’ve invested in our profile pages and there’s the occasional lost friend who finds us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27,8],"tags":[51,28,63,64,62,65],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-tech","category-webtech","tag-culture-2","tag-facebook","tag-identity","tag-internet","tag-online","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}