Facebook is again in hot water with its users. This time it's for a plan to send messages to the friends of users about what they are buying online. In other words, if I go buy a movie, what I bought will go out to my "friends." By the way, this is why Rambler doesn't use Facebook or MySpace. Oh, that and that I have no friends but anyway.
I say turn it up a notch. How about a minute-by-minute report of whatever I'm doing online to my Facebook friends? I can see it now:
12:01 A.M. Rambler just visited Live Crazy Girls with Whips
12:05 A.M. Rambler has left Live Crazy Girls with Whips and is now on the Drudge Report.
12:06 A.M. Rambler has left Drudge and is now reading Washington Post
12:07 A.M. Rambler has left Washington Post and is now on You Porn.
12:09 A.M. Rambler is now buying a screen cleaner. OK, that was a little gross.
But you get the idea.
Facebook no doubt assumed that if these bozos will put pictures of themselves drunk and high on the web and babble about their latest humiliating adventure with five of their closest guy friends, why would they care if we just sent out a note letting their friends know they just bought a used copy of Legally Blonde II?
Ah, but that's the rub. This is all about one-way communication and that's why this latest Facebook blunder misfired.
Seriously though, I agree with the Facebookies on this one. Plus it means that once again Facebook will have to go back to the drawing board to actually figure out how to make money. Rambler may be showing his age, but I seriously question the valuations for these companies. I don't know what Google was thinking with You Tube, but for them it doesn't really matter since $1.65 billion is in loose change under their couch.
Just because you can accumulate the masses doesn't mean it's a ticket to make money. The whole point of Facebook and MySpace is the Warhol fifteen minutes of fame thing. These folks think their life is fascinating. They think other people will find it fascinating. Maybe that's all true, but I'm not sure how you sell Tide with it.
Public bathrooms also accumulate the masses and would be ideal places to market but I don't see anyone lining up to spend $2 billion for "Johnny on the Spot." Hmmm, are they a publicly traded company?
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i gotta say. i love it when you refer to yourself as "The Rambler"! sounds like a cowboy :) action figure in the works?
Maybe! I'm not a fan of the third person but I'm also not quite ready to come out as Bruce Wayne. Of course, I use Rambler in part as someone who just rambles on with no point.
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