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I think, in a way, it’s already starting to. Facebook started losing some of its cool factor (and usability) when everyone’s parents got their own accounts

Finally! Somebody gets it. Facebook is rapidly hemorrhaging it's cool factor. Listen, I get that everybody and her mom is desperate to have a space all her own, but there is no point in forcing me to see it. I never cared when my peers went ballistic because they found out employers were looking on Facebook to find out what potential employees were doing (that I expected). But listen, Mom-Mom, you wanna talk to me, please don't do it via facebook. We have phones. Facebook is the medium I use to let the person I knew from third grade that I'm still around after he bugs me with the 15th facebook message containing "LOL" no less than eight times.

If the movie is made and out in 18 months, who the fuck will care? In fact, if this movie came out in 18 days, who would pay to see it?

Ah, yes, the kids checking their facebook status via their cellphones with the brightest screen ever created, during the entire film.

What it sounds is, boring.

I predict by the time this is released, Facebook will be like the telephone book. You know how they drop it at the end of your driveway and you carry it directly to the recycle bin?

You've Got Mail v2.0

Che, you nailed it!

*yawn* no thanks..

Sewer rat could taste like pumpkin pie but I ain't eating it.

Aren't you somebody's dad?

Ba-zing! But I wouldn't say it was loss of cool on Facebook's part. They weren't that cool before, the focus was on function over form and it worked. It was when they focused more on the form and kept trying to look like the cool kid that it became irritating. That, and there are far too many people who will create a profile for their 2-month old child, or their gorram cat.

I'd rather watch Se7en part 2 than this....

This sounds less than horrendous actually. I must say that Fincher and Sorkin make for quite a crack team, yet I think it could work.
Honestly when I heard the name Fincher in the same sentence as Facebook, I thought, "Horror movie and quasi social commentary about our addiction to the internet" but alas. It's not quite that gruesome.

Aren't you somebody's dad? You're part of the problem.

You watch your mouth, OJR. Just because you didn't get a tie rack or dress socks as a gift on Sunday, doesn't mean you...wait, is that Matlock on TV?

Oh, I meant to say: I left my MySpace back at the end of my freshman year of college and switched to Facebook, because a guy who I had the *biggest* crush on at the time told me Facebook was the way of the future. (He was right, but I still firmly believe now that he's a tool) For reasons too long to go into, I had to revisit my Myspace page midway through my Junior year, and oh. My. God. There's quite honestly nothing worse that reliving the angst and self-doubt of your younger self, knowing that it's been immortalised for the whole world to see for two years. I shut my Myspace down in three seconds flat, and resolved never to post anything less than cheery on Facebook, a vow I've nearly always kept to, and had some Very Deep Thoughts about attempting to capture an element of myself within an internet page, where (transient thought it may seem) it'll essentially be stored forever. Some things aren't meant to be captured and observed, they're just meant to be.

Basically, that's how I see people looking back on this film by 2012.

I have a lot of faith in Sorkin and I respect Fincher but I find it very hard to be compelled by the prospects of this movie. Maybe if they cast one, or all, of the five women I just voted for in the other thread it would help. But I'd still be left scratching my head.

You watch your mouth, OJR. Just because you didn't get a tie rack or dress socks as a gift on Sunday, doesn't mean you...wait, is that Matlock on TV?

Posted by: branded at June 23, 2009 11:30 PM

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.

And I'm going to pretend Fincher (one of my favorite directors...behind Proya) isn't attached to this. The guy needs to go dark again...really dark. It's what he is good at, and he needs to stick to it.

So, Facebook is cool? I guess I missed it...

I've never cared for social networking websites. Maybe it's because I'm anti-social. These websites scare me a little. Why put up personal info for all the world to see? Doesn't anyone value his/her privacy anymore? Doesn't the government and quite a good number of companies and organisations have enough information about us? Don't you know that whatever you put up on the internet can linger there for longer than you wish it to. And what's cool when you're 15 is not so cool when you've hit 30 and what you did 15 years before is making you look like a fool. Most people you lose contact with throughout your lifetime you do so for bloody a good reason (either relationships reach a natural end, you have bad arguments or you simply move on with life in a completely different direction) so why in the world would you want to reestablish contact with someone you do not have anything in common with anymore? I can see where the interest in social networking websites comes from but the cons far outweigh the pros. That said, I'd probably watch the film, and cringe at the silliness of it all.

I will tell you where it went wrong: the fucking second they let high schoolers on. It was strictly an inter-college network, and it was good. Then they let the high schoolers on (who were still making MySpace damn near unintelligible), and THEY started requesting the damn changes. After that, total downhill action. There was no reason to keep anyone out after that.

This is one of the rare times I will ever bitch about the next generation.

I keep my myspace page open for a couple of people who won't make the switch, but I feel dirty when I go there.

If myspace was an apartment, the lighting would be flickering and greenish; there would be babies crying, people having violent arguments, obnoxious music pumping from the floor below. The walls would be rotting and the place would smell like the worst of depraved humanity. When I visit a myspace page of a band I like, I tread carefully. I'm extremely aware of my proximity to horrible things and I do not linger.

Even with its shit changes, Facebook is like a seaside condo...that you sometimes have to invite your in-laws to.

My sister tried to convince me to get on Facebook because she was on it, her kids were on it and OUR FATHER was on it. I set up an account with minimal info. There was too much crap on the screen and I didn't care to know what everyone was doing at that moment. "Hey guys, I'm taste testing the Ass-Swiffer right now!" When someone from highschool asked to be my friend, I shut the damn thing down.

I'm on the computer all day, doing mainframe computer tech support. I'm in a chatroom with my co-irkers for 9 hours straight being polite and technical. I use Pajiba to have fun and blow off steam and be relatively anonymous. I don't want a page on the internet dedicated to me. I want to be mysterious.

"Hackers" and "The Net", right? We didn't need them either.

While there was no need for The Net, Hackers is a piece of art that defines a generation. It is a culturally significant piece of filmmaking that is highly underrated.

Nobody talks shit about Hackers while I'm around.

Human Rolodex.
Yes.
I also use it as a work distractor.
See, I'm interested in people's lives...but some of them I don't particularly want to talk to.
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FACEBOOK!

Facebook makes me laugh, but it's the laugh of impatience. HOWEVER -
Things I recently learned on Facebook that amazed me:

My ex-husband's test came back benign - he does not have cancer (this is a very good thing).

My sister is going to be visiting Canada from overseas this summer.

My best friend's brother is having a baby.

Nobody tells me shit anymore. They don't have do - they just post it on Facebook.

Note:
Me and my Facebook "friends" are prime examples of why Facebook is shriekingly uncool. Social media lovers beware: we're now starting to use Twitter.

i love how people can unabashedly fault a communication platform for them not knowing interesting people or being unwilling to stop communicating with uninteresting people they already know.

Jay, come here. COME HERE YOUNG MAN! Hackers bad-mouthing will get you ten in your room. To think about what you've done.

I don't care about whether Facebook is cool or not - I like it just fine. There's a few whackos, but they're on the local bus too. You don't get a button to create distance in real life, which sucks. And all you have to do is be careful about what you post and take a moment of awareness about what you are presenting to the world. That super-hot shot can be hidden for the right person if you like, too.

Anyways, I do like to see what happened with people I used to care greatly about. It's an easy way to take your world in small doses, and I REALLY like/love/adore a lot of people I now get to talk to that I never would have encountered in my small patch of the world.

I really don't understand why people crave exclusivity so much that they are willing to pay huge amounts of cash, or need to brag/posture about being first, or complain when something they like becomes popular. It really just means you've encountered something earlier than others...it's not something that couldn't have been done by anyone else. John Lennon's, All you need is love says it best.

Ugh!

....the rest of it sucks more....

Go Maryscott :)! Keep going and going!