I’m directly quoting CNET and saying “The future will be streamed. And streamed some more.” I can’t say this is a good thing. In their recent article Facebook vs. Twitter: How will you stream your world?, they talk about Facebook’s new attempt to be more like Twitter. That’s Right! Quoting facebook’s home-page tour directly: “We’ve updated our home page to make it easier to understand what’s going on with the people you care about. Now your friends’ posts are streamed in real-time and you have more control over what you see.”

Some of The New Features

If you’re saying to yourself “that sounds a lot like Twitter”, you’d be right! Facebook failed to buy Twitter and as a result, it looks like their going to step us a competitor. BusinessWeek.com explains that “Facebook’s imprecise and illiquid stock valuation limited its appeal to Twitter”. And to make matters worse, if Facebook succeeds,  aggregation services like FriendFeed will have no use.

I used to be a big fan of Facebook, but then I started noticing the “revolution” that started taking place. Friends of mine would spend many wasted hours making “cyber-friends” and keeping up with old “buddies”. The entire concept of Friendship has been skewed. Facebook is a great way for people to keep in touch, but with this new re-design, our lives are going to become that much more digital.

I’m interested to see who wins the “Micro-Blogging” battle!

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