The 'Ole Way vs. Web 2.0

How have some things changed in our profession since 2000? Since the dot-com era, since the bubble burst, in this new age of web 2.0?

How we use the web and its services is completely different now. We have blogs, communities, and completely new and dynamic ways to create websites, but not everybody is caught up yet.

Are you up to speed or still living in the year 2000?

Of all the things listed to the right, the one thing I don't interact with is Facebook. Yes I am a bit of a hater. I just don’t really see the point. I had a MySpace profile years ago but committed MySpace-Suicide a couple of months later after being highly frustrated of all the “How are You?” nonsense messages my friends were leaving all the time.

Don’t really care what your favorite color is, or what annoying song you might have instantaneously play when I get to your page. I also don’t care about your band or the fact that having 8,000 friends somehow makes you feel more popular.

You want to write to me? If you know me just send me an email, the whole world doesn’t need to know about our correspondence. But I seem to be the last of the Mohicans. Almost everyone I know now has a Facebook profile.

So here’s what really annoys me about Facebook, without being a member you can’t even look at someone’s profile. When people email me to tell me they just posted some interesting information or graphic on their Facebook page, I can’t even get to it, unless I well… euhm… sign up with Facebook.

No Facebook! I don’t want to be a member, I don’t care how “highly” exclusive your little club is, I just want to be able to see someone’s profile who actually is a member.

So forget it Facebook! Stop trying! You’re not cornering me into signing up! You’re not! Aaaahh!