This is perhaps a bit late in the day to be penning a page about ‘Face-book’, around the time that this medium is already towards the latter part of its life cycle when people have moved on to other avenues of excitement, blogging has become passé, tweeting a thing one did in your teens, and the people left on FB now are there more by habit.
One feature of FB, which I am sure has already been discussed threadbare, is the ‘Like’ feature. Man is been born with a thousand emotions, but the creators of the site chose to remain with the ‘Like’ feature. No matter what you see on the home page, you are left with only two choices, either to ‘Like’ the post or remain a silent observer. Rather primitive way of making people interact, if i may say so.
Well let me elaborate, a trip to Timbuktu, hubby in his pyjamas, child on to its monkey pranks, or the pet with its wild behaviour all manage to get a ‘Like’. Your rivals at work, manage to get a promotion, you don’t have option but to give them a ‘Like’, especially if the whole team at work has already wished him on his success, the neighbours have gone on their fourth vacation in as many months, and you are livid with envy, but do you have any options.
FB may be a Fortune 500 company, having been started only for Harvard Graduates, but now when it caters to every one who can click a button, should it not be helping people express themselves better. I still wonder how many marks the behavioural scientists would give to this site. Have they studied this strange facet of human behaviour of making do with a single mode of acknowledgement of events in others life, giving or deciding not to give a ‘Like’!. What do experts in the art of communications have to say on this.
That is where, yours truly, comes on the scene with a whole lot of ideas to transform FB. Mother-in-law, planning to visit you, she announces on FB, wish people could notice that you clicked ‘like’ on your mouse so harshly that, had it been a more interactive software, it would have burned a hole in the web page. Imagine being able to burn a hole in the web page. Well thats not a bad idea is it, what do u say ?. The ‘Hole’ would come with a acknowledgement saying “ MR.ABC burnt a hole in the status”. Of course you could still retain the option of selecting who all could see that hole. Now do you realise how drab FB really is ?. I am still trying to imagine more opportunities here.
Boss got a recognition for a work that you did, while he was away on that ignominious trip with his cute executive assistant, burn it down, but of course make sure that only the right people are able to see it, else it could burn a hole in your CV. The cousin that you have been competing with since you were five year old, marries the richest old man in the city, and you read about them leaving for their honeymoon in their private jet, matchbox here I come, neighbour posing with the latest ‘Audi’ they had acquired, so what if they all open the doors at each traffic signal to vomit out tobacco spittle, burn it down, i mean the web page not the Audi of course.
That was about extreme hatred, but you still could want to react with a negative emotion. Like slap, kick, punch, bite, someone whom you cannot stand. So go ahead, had I been an advisor to FB, I would have made sure that there were buttons for each of these reactions.
Now don’t get ideas about how negative and sceptical I am. Who said I would not be arranging for buttons for kiss, love, empathise, fondle (OMG), being on the subject why not a OMG button, when a friend fails an exam, you could click OMG, or even when your ex post a photograph in which she has put on five kilos. Better still, we could have a customised button, which lets you express your feelings better, like in the above example you could say, ‘Join sliming classes’
Karl Zukerberg are you listening ?
One feature of FB, which I am sure has already been discussed threadbare, is the ‘Like’ feature. Man is been born with a thousand emotions, but the creators of the site chose to remain with the ‘Like’ feature. No matter what you see on the home page, you are left with only two choices, either to ‘Like’ the post or remain a silent observer. Rather primitive way of making people interact, if i may say so.
Well let me elaborate, a trip to Timbuktu, hubby in his pyjamas, child on to its monkey pranks, or the pet with its wild behaviour all manage to get a ‘Like’. Your rivals at work, manage to get a promotion, you don’t have option but to give them a ‘Like’, especially if the whole team at work has already wished him on his success, the neighbours have gone on their fourth vacation in as many months, and you are livid with envy, but do you have any options.
FB may be a Fortune 500 company, having been started only for Harvard Graduates, but now when it caters to every one who can click a button, should it not be helping people express themselves better. I still wonder how many marks the behavioural scientists would give to this site. Have they studied this strange facet of human behaviour of making do with a single mode of acknowledgement of events in others life, giving or deciding not to give a ‘Like’!. What do experts in the art of communications have to say on this.
That is where, yours truly, comes on the scene with a whole lot of ideas to transform FB. Mother-in-law, planning to visit you, she announces on FB, wish people could notice that you clicked ‘like’ on your mouse so harshly that, had it been a more interactive software, it would have burned a hole in the web page. Imagine being able to burn a hole in the web page. Well thats not a bad idea is it, what do u say ?. The ‘Hole’ would come with a acknowledgement saying “ MR.ABC burnt a hole in the status”. Of course you could still retain the option of selecting who all could see that hole. Now do you realise how drab FB really is ?. I am still trying to imagine more opportunities here.
Boss got a recognition for a work that you did, while he was away on that ignominious trip with his cute executive assistant, burn it down, but of course make sure that only the right people are able to see it, else it could burn a hole in your CV. The cousin that you have been competing with since you were five year old, marries the richest old man in the city, and you read about them leaving for their honeymoon in their private jet, matchbox here I come, neighbour posing with the latest ‘Audi’ they had acquired, so what if they all open the doors at each traffic signal to vomit out tobacco spittle, burn it down, i mean the web page not the Audi of course.
That was about extreme hatred, but you still could want to react with a negative emotion. Like slap, kick, punch, bite, someone whom you cannot stand. So go ahead, had I been an advisor to FB, I would have made sure that there were buttons for each of these reactions.
Now don’t get ideas about how negative and sceptical I am. Who said I would not be arranging for buttons for kiss, love, empathise, fondle (OMG), being on the subject why not a OMG button, when a friend fails an exam, you could click OMG, or even when your ex post a photograph in which she has put on five kilos. Better still, we could have a customised button, which lets you express your feelings better, like in the above example you could say, ‘Join sliming classes’
Karl Zukerberg are you listening ?
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That was about facebook but I find almost all the blemishes covered up in this site here, congrats to the ADMIN..... just that the discussions here are so high brow, that a simpleton like me feels so out of place. but cheers to all of you folks, for this opportunity of taking your time here.
