I remember back in 2004 when US colleges were being added to the Facebook network, but UW was left out – back then, you couldn’t get an account unless you had an email address from a in-network school. Then UW was let in and I was able to join! I used Facebook frequently; daily but never playing any games on it – and I still do now. At some point, I mirrored each of my blog posts onto Facebook and considered it the social hub for my photos (since I could tag people and EVERYONE was on it so they could comment). But then gradually, I and other people lost interest in Facebook.

Now, while most people still have their Facebook account, it doesn’t seem like they are using it. There’s still a core group of people who (perhaps annoyingly, perhaps young) post their entire life on Facebook. They are the ones that pollute your news feed even though you don’t really know them! But I feel most people just lurk nowadays, and wish people Happy Birthday. That’s boring, and not worth checking Facebook all the time.

For me, I stopped posting photos on Facebook, I switched to Twitter for my status updates because Facebook is too slow on my phone (although they are sometimes mirrored onto Facebook), and may post a link or photo every once in a while. It’s more than some people, but less that what I was doing before. Maybe it’s because there’s not much interaction on Facebook anymore, but there’s not much desire or motivation to use Facebook now.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: facebook