Is this possibly the reason that when I just now logged into Twitter to see some of these exciting new ads the very first thing I see across the top is Real Time Results for "Jesus I Love You" -- save this search"? Because that's not exactly "useful to you".
@5, good food serves no necessity that gruel can't. Clothing serves no necessity that a burlap sack can't. Your house serves no necessity that a hole in the ground can't. Art, music, literature, sex, booze -- that ol' "necessity" argument eliminates 99.99% of what makes life interesting. Is Facebook in there? Well, apparently for 400 million people, yes, it does. Are they dumber than you? Hmm.
Fnarf is correct. And by the way, a business website that I use extensively was down for a server upgrade and all traffic was being re-directed to a Facebook group they had set up, so yeah, it was kind of a necessity.
Simply mocking the ubiquitous "I am better than facebook, but am forced to have one because I have no other way to get in touch with people I spoke to once in high school" defense. If you think that social networking is for the cretins, why waste your time?
I just went onto Twitter to see what had changed and, OH, wouldn't you believe it?
I never signed up for Twitter! So I wanted to mention this on my Facebook.
Then I realized that I couldn't access that private internets, either, because I never signed up to it.
Shucks. I just use the public internets. That makes me so 1.0.
If it makes you feel any better, I noticed while I was on FB that, while Dan Savage is signed up, he has no friends.
Twitters is great because Pbobs and Megan tweet interesting things.
Apparently they now feel like they have a big enough base that they can sell ads. Duh.
I don't like ads any more than anyone else, but I'm not the least bit surprised by this.
@9: Good food can give you an orgasm. Gruel can't.
Shame on them.