I realise this may insult about 70% of people on Facebook but that may be more reason why this needs to be adressed. It's a number of problems really which mostly circulate around the whole groups/fan pages stuff.
Firstly why do people insist on making fan pages for and then becoming fans of scenarios? Dictionary.com defines the word "fan" as "any device for producing a current of air by movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces" but what do they know, I say a fan is someone who follows a person or team, usually one in the public eye. So it doesn't make sense for someone to become a fan of a certain situation or feeling, that just defeats the point of being a fan. I say leave that sort of stuff exclusively for the groups.
While I'm talking about Facebook groups though, why do people think that they will find one million people that will join their group for a cause that 4 out of 10 people agree with. As Mr Scott Varnham pointed out to me Facebook only has about 4 or 5 million users that often use it so the chances of even one fifth of them users "hating Tokyo Hotel" is very unlikely (especially as I for one don't even know who they are).
However the most annoying of the groups is the ones that ask for the old facebook back, if they ever makes changes it's always very minimal and in my opinion for the better, so get with the times and quit complaining, new facebook is here to stay (Until the next update that everyone will complain about).
I wonder who should be the most ashamed, the ones that join or the ones that make it, I'll let you decide that.
On an ending note I'd just like to let people know that whilst looking for an example for the finding a million people group I did stumple upon a group for hating cancer which has over a million members which is fair enough really.
Saturday, 14 November 2009
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