[mdlug] Facebook was Re: Google Wave invites

[Peter Bart]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:21:16 -0500
Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Bart wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:06:32 -0500
> > Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at opengroupware.us> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:44 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:07:50 +0100
> >>> Rich Elswick <painbank at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Farmville seems popular now.
> >>> Still Facebook. FWIW I think ranks as the most
> >>> useless !"@#¥^~%$&*?)(/\ ever. Sorry
> >> Yea, "popular" and "useful"/"productive" are not equivalent.  
> > 
> > 	Now, why are the owners of such "popular" time wasters
> > multi millionaires while so many very useful application developers
> > languish?  Not that everything in life must be usefull and
> > productive, but some of these things just complicate my life! If
> > one of these so called "applications" doesn't perform as expected
> > it's immediately the computers fault. Which then becomes my
> > problem, even if it's at the very rock bottom of my list. I wonder
> > sometimes whether some of the slowness; of these applications; is
> > due to them not being able to collect the same amount of
> > information as from a Windows system. But mostly I'm amazed at how
> > much of Mommy and Daddy's money little Dick and Jane waste on stuff
> > they could do themselves. Like wallpaper for Myspace. 
> > 
> 
> 
> Why are you giving them money to spend on Myspace wallpapers?

I'm most certainly not. That was a sweeping generalization based
loosely on the Downriver girls success at selling such things, which
link now escapes my search fu. She was recently in the paper again, but
I can't find it. 
> 
> >> Most of the social-networking hype, is just that: hype;  a passing
> >> fad. Yep, I'm a geek who works in IT, and I mean that.
> >>
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