January 18, 2008

  • I joined Facebook this week.

    Facebook is excellent at facilitating social connections between people, albeit at a predominantly surface level.  Nevertheless, it's quite engaging.

    In some ways its ease and low "buy-in" is part of its appeal. You
    can set up and maintain a page with minimal effort, and keep in contact with a lot other people without having to spend a whole lot of time reading and writing long blog entries, which would be difficult with a large number of contacts. It's mostly short wall posts, pictures, video, with the occasional longer message. The interconnectivy provided by the newsfeed is a nice feature.

    There's an excellent Newsweek article about Facebook here.