Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs and Master of New Media, took the lid off a noisy can of worms this week when he declared Facebook Bankruptcy, exhausted by his facebook chores of responding to endless invitations, requests and guilt trips. In sum, he says, “Folks have just opted in to another out of control inbox…. I’m opting out.”
This was all too much for Scoble, whose river of crocodile tears led to ”Calacanis can’t keep up with Facebook“. Scoble apparently manages more than 4,000 Facebook friends (including me - I’m down here somewhere) compared to Jason’s mere 395, saying, “More of the best names in tech are on Facebook than any other social network I’m on.” and ”Facebook is the new business card”. He sees Facebook as new age marketing. (Is this why half my homepage consists of Scoble videos? Just kidding…)
Nestled between the extremes is a piece by Rex Hammock, who I think gets it right when he says, ”Facebook is a sandbox I’m playing in — but it has a long way to go before it can hope to be the world I live in.” (more…)
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