Comments on: Facebooking, and the new tier of communication http://mattmccullough.net/2007/11/21/facebooking-and-the-new-tier-of-communication/ Random nonsense Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Living in the Browser | Terminally Incoherent http://mattmccullough.net/2007/11/21/facebooking-and-the-new-tier-of-communication/#comment-3493 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:47:14 +0000 http://mattmccullough.net/2007/11/21/facebooking-and-the-new-tier-of-communication/#comment-3493 [...] seems to be something you use to talk to your mom and grandpa these days. To a lot of students email is a dead medium and they much prefer to use tools like IM, Facebook or Twitter for rapid [...]

]]> By: Matthew McCullough http://mattmccullough.net/2007/11/21/facebooking-and-the-new-tier-of-communication/#comment-2956 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:29:17 +0000 http://mattmccullough.net/2007/11/21/facebooking-and-the-new-tier-of-communication/#comment-2956 Obviously email still has its place in the business and academic world, but just to send a quick message with my friends, I go straight to facebook. At this point I feel an email would be too formal.

]]> By: Luke Maciak http://mattmccullough.net/2007/11/21/facebooking-and-the-new-tier-of-communication/#comment-2955 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:10:34 +0000 http://mattmccullough.net/2007/11/21/facebooking-and-the-new-tier-of-communication/#comment-2955 But Facebook is just a social network. It’s a proprietary walled garden. I don’t think it’s appropriate communication tool.

Email is built on top of open protocols and I’m free to use whatever email client, and whatever server I want. Facebook may have an API, but it is far from being open.

Social networking is nice to connect with people, and stay in the loop with what everyone is up to. It’s great for sharing pictures, organizing events and etc. But if I want to actually have a conversation with someone, I shoot them an email.

After all my email client is way better at keeping track of my conversations. That is it’s primary function, and the private messaging app on facebook will never be as efficient or full featured as Gmail or Thunderbird.

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