Then charge for deluxe accounts, ones that get your profile a more prominent look, so all the famewhores in there will pay for it.

Add a habbo-like graphic enviroment were you have to pay for any pixelated piece of shit you want to add to your "dorm".

Anyway, if FB does all this, I'm suing their asses, and you're all my witnesses!

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When you had to be a college student to get on it. When the email saying "ZOMG, our school was just added!" raced around campus.

Now my fucking aunts and uncles and family-friends-we-haven't-seen-in-10-years are always friending me.

Go get your own social networking site.

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It doesn't matter how cool your PHP script is, even what brand. You simply can't rely on a community of self-interested plebs to make anything worthwhile. It's all about you.

Joel Stein, a boring LA times writer said something worthwhile for once in his life:

"Not long ago, very few people got their writing published, and those people were often paid for it. Now everybody can type about themselves online, and "25 Things" has finally established writing's Internet Age value: You actually have to pay to get read. And the payment is wading through other people's boring writing about themselves. This isn't how writing works. This is how talking works."

"We need to reestablish the barrier for writing in the first person, limiting it to jailed civil rights leaders, little girls hiding from Nazis and me."

The site has 175 million plebs self-disclosing their personal details. Formerly, people in intelligence and corporations would find this information invaluable. Now we know so much about each other's lives we have come desensitised.

Intellectualism as we know it is fucked. No one can stand to read someone else's writings unless it's a conspiracy theory or some evangelist's airport prolefeed.

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maybe your take on facebook comes down to the people you want to associate with, online or off, and how physically far away from them you are - because now, suddenly, after years in the wilderness, facebook has me back chatting with people who have common interests and better yet is motivating me to get back to the person I once was. so all you facebook haters? you can just suck it - if there is a downside I haven't seen it yet.

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Talk about living up to your name.

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