It happened today; January 26th, 2008.
One New Message
Of all the community sites, which tend to be the more active enablers of the More Information Than Brains problem, Facebook has always been the lesser evil. The programming and architecture was easy, simple and clean. People weren’t allowed to add Safari-crashing, bling-art and dancing glitter-bears to their background and their advertising was kept targeted, non intrusive, and relatively affordable. It was a good way to keep up with your old friends, and play some scrabble with them, while avoiding many of the MySpace plagues.
The theory of MItB however, is that because SPAM is free, it will progress and grow more quickly than the filters and programmers working against it, who are paid for their wares. We’ll never be rid of it, because there is no cost-barrier to SPAM.
Facebook held out, and held out well, but there is a leak in the SPAM-dam, and where there’s one cam-girl, there are billions.
hello? anybody home? can we get a new pot please????