Felt relieved too when Facebook introduced that ‘Ignore all’ button in the ‘Request section’? Not interested in 5 different kinds of ‘birthday reminders’ which fundamentally all do the same thing? ‘Geintse kádookes’ (Ghent gifts) are the last thing in the world that can spark your attention? Believe me, you are not alone out there! Recently I hear a lot of people complaining about the futile applications and connect-services distracting people from what they use Facebook for: as a supplement to other interactive communication media like e-mail and their cell phone.
Nevertheless – what is actually rather interesting – these curmudgeons, although complaining about Facebook, keep using it. Maybe an indication that Zuckerberg’s project is here to stay? As a matter of fact, these people should not even have to abandon Facebook anyway!
Recently Facebook Lite was developed. Introduced this summer in the United States and India, the stripped Facebook version is now also available in Belgium. When entering lite.facebook.com the site is introduced as a “faster, simpler way to keep in touch with your friends” and that’s just what it is. In that way it much resembles Twitter with the emphasis on short notifications about what users are doing or have done recently – a trend which has grown stronger and stronger with every new Facebook update.
Sources: lite.facebook.com, October, 3 2009, De Tijd's Tzine, October, 3 2009
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