Facebook, is it really?

I remember when I finally caved into the pressure and made a MySpace account. I never did truly like it, and I thought it was a social cancer on the way in which people interact. It felt so watered down, but I used it. I had little choice, that was the only way to reach people anymore after all. I will admin that I had some fun designing a personal page, and that was my first intro to HTML and coding. But then Facebook entered the scene and after awhile everyone abandoned ship. EVERYONE! There was no more MySpace! Nobody talked about it, and I had no idea what happened.

So I made a Facebook account. Why not? I never cared for it either. It didn't help that at the time it was still fairly primitive as far as social networking is concerned. Although it seemed like Facebook and MySpace were almost mirrors of each other a lot of the time. Like there's some clearly defined model of social networking that all sites adopt and conform to. And this model kept updating! As soon as one site changed, the other would do the same. Facebook started having status updates post on a wall and forced all "friends" to see.

I had no interest, but I had little else to do. I lurked a lot before I started actually posting. Facebook just never got me excited. But then, Google was rumored to be starting it's own social networking service. That got me excited. I love Google services, and how they all working seamlessly in conjunction together (Much like how Adobe programs have become.) I was blown away by the thought of having a social media/networking site that tied into all the services I already used on a daily basis. I even got accepted into early beta testing for Google+.

Google+ in the early stages was BORING. So empty and bland. The features were cool, if you had other people to use them with. I still use Google Hangout for video chats every once in a while, but mostly stick to my TeamSpeak 3 server. Sadly though, Google+ came out and never quite caught on. People still stuck to Facebook and worshipped it religiously. Like an Apple fanboy buying the newest iPod for the updated firmware and redesigned charging port, claiming it's a gift from god and not realizing he spent too much money on nothing more than a software update. Google+ accounts you see are mostly just businesses and business folks trying to cover all the web bases. It's a shame it never took off like they intended to.