Baratunde Thurston on the Facebook Curmudgeon Panel at WCF 07

My Name is Baratunde, and I’m a Facebook Curmudgeon Small Presentation Thing for Web Community Forum 2007 www.baratunde.com Comedian, Author, Vigilante Pundit

About Me Political comedian, writer Blogger for Huffington Post, Jack & Jill Politics, baratunde.com Former strategy consultant for mediacommwebstuff Recently joined The Onion as Web Editor www.baratunde.com

Facebook User Since 1990s www.baratunde.com

Rich User Profiles! Name Major Phone Number Email Mailing Address Dorm Room Class Year Offline-Poking www.baratunde.com

Rich User Profiles! Multi- Platform Messaging Name Major Phone Number Email Mailing Address Dorm Room Class Year Offline-Poking www.baratunde.com

Rich User Profiles! Multi- Platform Messaging Behaviorial Targeting Data Name Major Phone Number Email Mailing Address Dorm Room Class Year Offline-Poking www.baratunde.com

Rich User Profiles! Multi- Platform Messaging Behaviorial Targeting Data Name Major Phone Number Email Location- Based Mailing Address Dorm Room Services Class Year Offline-Poking www.baratunde.com

Things to Fix in the New FacebookWebAdvertisingSocialPlatform 2.0 Service Bad for whales (partially resolved) Bass ackwards contacts & messaging The (Spam) Platform Other Whining Conclusion www.baratunde.com

The Day Facebook Died to Me Presence August 17, 2007 900 frnds, 600 in grp replaced email list. trapped used for promo BLOCKED >> Angry Blogging Photo by B I R D, via Flickr Status: Partially resolved by Pages www.baratunde.com

Groups vs. Pages Presence How about Grages? Feature Groups Pages ? Y Bulk Messaging w/o Limit Y -- Members Can Reply to Msg -- -- Target Msg by Geography, Other Y -- * Invite Mechanism Y -- * Use for Event Invites -- Y Applications Y Usage Metrics (vid plays, etc) Y -- * Easy to Find (via directory) Status: Pages wins for me. * = likely to be fixed www.baratunde.com

I have 1,224 friends Contacts Now what? Create Custom Groups: Affiliation: high school, conference, illegally wiretapped Geography, etc. Let Me Do Things with them Messaging Event invites View and interact with apps (e.g. popular books among subgroup) Status: Still Sucks www.baratunde.com

MySpace Flashbacks Msging or Never Abandon Basic Features that Work Folders??? Search??? Group Messages??? Flagging??? Filters/Blocking??? Export/Download??? Status: Still Sucks www.baratunde.com

MySpace Flashbacks Msging or Never Abandon Basic Features that Work Folders??? Search??? Group Messages??? EMAIL!! Flagging??? Filters/Blocking??? Export/Download??? Status: Still Sucks www.baratunde.com

If I get one more Zombie invite CrApps ...I’m digging up a corpse, injecting it with the Rage virus and setting it loose on the Facebook developers Give me a Dashboard w/ total & friend users Build in ratings Create a category for “stupid” Let me opt out Status: Getting better. Doesn’t email me www.baratunde.com

Networks and Beacon Whining Now I’m just piling on Let me join multiple city networks Give users explicit control of their data www.baratunde.com

Facebook has massive potential The End May one day be as good as www.baratunde.com

Facebook has massive potential The End May one day be as good as The Internet www.baratunde.com

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Baratunde Thurston on the Facebook Curmudgeon Panel at WCF 07

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