Oh, are you still here?
Posted On Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 By Zen Render
This was going to start as a little piece talking about how much more time I spend at Facebook, but I don’t spend much time AT Facebook, I’ve been spending time chatting with friends VIA Facebook. See, there’s this chat system, and it’s meant to allow users who are on FB to chat with others on FB, “live.” It’s their way of keeping you at the site, and hopefully looking at the odd advertisment for whatever it is (I seem to have a well-developed set of side-banner blinders, to the point that I’ve been at “dark underbelly of the web” sites looking for information about a server exploit or something, and had my then-very-young son point at a picture on the sidebar and ask “Where’d that lady’s clothes go?”) So yeah, so I don’t see the ads, sorry Facebook, sorry Google. I don’t see ‘em. Even worse though, is that I no-longer even VISIT Facebook any more, since my Blackberry has a Facebook app that handles messages, pokes, photos (including uploading, how “this just in” of me), status updates, and wall posts. See? Almost everything you need to do on FB is on my BB. But no chat. If I Continue Reading