Josh Kim dot Org

Reducing the value of the word “friend”, horrible app spam, the questionable profit generation through advertisements (Where’s the $$$?), that random corner of whitespace on the upper right hand corner after the new version… Lots of issues I have with Facebook. But one thing’s for certain: It helps people to keep contact with those that they’ve naturally forgotten.

I’m not talking about the hurtful breakups or the friends you’ve turned out to hate (besides, you’ve probably unfriended them or you’ve cancelled your account): I’m talking about the random people you met at that one random day and shared that random moment.

And because of this gigantic database of networks, you could one day run into that person again. In RL! OP OP OP!

Sidenote: Sorry for the non-WoW players, for that last sentence will be fallen onto deaf ears… deaf eyes… blind eyes? Moving on…

It’s most interesting when you’re staring at a relationship that’s bound to just end up nowhere. I have to call a reference to Austin Powers; the scene where the henchman was facing certain doom as the steamroller was inching towards him as the camera kept cutting back and forth between his cries for help and Austin’s best efforts to get him out of the way. You know that realization is coming… but when?

Facebook to the rescue. Whether the reason be due to geographical differences too far to be reached by a simple car drive or just missing each other due to different schedules, you can actually have a continuing conversation, with no regards to time or location (through their own messaging system or the wall or status updates or annoying app spam or whatever). (I would say ex tempore, but silly English language changed the meaning of that phrase. Jerks.) It’s like an easier-to-use answering machine.

If this post sounded a little happy, I’m sorry. I’m normally not like this. The funny thing is this post was brought on because of my being sad, but… isn’t it wonderful where life takes you?