It’s taken a bit of time to realise just how much the Facebook site has changed in the last six months. The added funtionality, in particular fan pages and self generated targetted classified ads, as well as the ability to livestream content to a specified page, makes it what could be the most significant platform for political engagement in the next general election.
I’ve set up a “fan” page here: Tom Watson Facebook Page. Feel free to drop by and sign up.
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I actually really, really dislike what Facebook has become. It’s distinctly more “Yahoo!” than “Google”: rather than capitalising on services which already exist, it goes to lengths to create not just a platform, but an entire ecosystem which duplicates things which invariably work better on their own.
Much of Facebook could (and indeed is, although not necessarily with particularly good integration—yet) be implemented as interoperable standalone services. It actually reminds me an awful lot of Microsoft’s attempts to reinvent the web in its own image from the late-90s and early-00s, which (despite its desktop browser dominance) failed miserably.
But, like many others, I’m stuck with it for the time being, in no small part thanks to intertia. Ain’t peer pressure great? So, I figured I might as well sign up to your page anyway… while lodging a protest
Ach, it’s not like I’m a Labour supporter nowadays anyway (that said, I wonder what proportion of your fans [explicit or otherwise] actually are…)
i really, really hate it. it just doesn’t work that well. they’ve tried to introduce too many features and you get lost. why can’t you search for groups in your own area? *sigh*
at the same time, i have found it again. i think all the people i didn’t want to be friends with in the first place have disappeared, so that makes it ten times better. funny how web services are so vogue-ish.
[nothing insightful here]
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