What’s that weird Facebook thing on the left hand sidebar on cbc.ca? And why is it taking up so much real estate on the screen?
The web gurus over at cbc.ca have seen the future, and it is Facebook, or Crackbook as most of us know it. The application is called Seen This? and by adding it you get a news feed on your Facebook profile that looks like the image on the right.
If you add it off of the CBC site, and not from within Facebook itself, you will get CBC content. You can choose to add other news agencies if you wish, but why would you. Really.
Now you can access your news headlines from your Facebook profile, meaning you never have to leave Facebook unless you are interested in a story. At which point, CBC.CA web gods have smartly ensured that you end up on their site.
Facebook has moved in a few short months from an idle curiosity to our main method of communication. Now in addition to e-mail, there are Facebook messages. Facebook has also just added a chat program to ensure that your convos don’t leave the site either. Our Facebook pages have become what our e-mail used to be before it got all filled up with spam and work. Seen This? gets so much real estate on the site because the site producers know how much eyeball time Facebook is getting among web users.
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A couple more doors doesn’t make it any less of a walled garden. If Facebook is the future then the future sucks.
But then chances are self-sustaining methane release from deep-sea clathrate deposits will be more of a problem than proprietary networks.
It’s an interesting app… and while I share Kev’s misgivings about Facebook’s closed nature, I also believe strongly in the need to go where your audience is participating.
BTW, you have some good-lookin’ friends there, Tod.
Haha! This is rich! I was one of the “first” people to sign up on F’book….& when it got so suffocatingly popular (& un-navigable….& too many rules) - about 6 months ago, I left. Now - it’s still “the” place to be?
It’s so…yesterday!
@articdreamer - You’ve just reminded me of the Yogi Berra quote about a restaurant in Minneapolis: “Nobody goes there any more - it’s too crowded.”
Thanks Rob - he’s my “yogi”! I will not go back to F’book, not even kicking & screaming. We’ve been forbidden to go there in the workplace…
Let them come to me