Thursday, July 29, 2010

From The Daily Reveille -- July 27, 2010



Facebook still has merit despite privacy concerns

Adam Arinder is off to work.

Adam Arinder is hooked on Assassin’s Creed 2.

Adam Arinder is typing my column.

(Insert your name here) is now reading Adam Arinder’s column.

Now just imagine a children’s choir singing Radiohead’s “Creep,” and you got yourself a fine movie trailer.

Those first three sentences were my last three status updates on Facebook with the final one being what should pop up on yours.

There have been plenty of columns written about Facebook in the past, so there’s no point in going into any discussions about etiquette or history.

It wastes time, it’s a perfect procrastination tool, it’s a great way to keep up with old friends and it’s also a great way to blow all your money buying virtual tools to have the best farm in “Farmville.”

Facebook has taken over.

It’s killed MySpace.

Twitter is around and highly successful, but it just doesn’t have the same depth of stalking capabilities Facebook offers.

It doesn’t seem like anything can pass up this networking giant — it just keeps growing.

Last week, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the social networking giant has passed the 500 million-user mark.

That’s a hell of a lot of farms. Read more here...

*From www.lsureveille.com*

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