Facebook is a cancer on the Internet

Facebook's downtime was an interesting event in social networking history. Rather than the Twitter fail whale which really poses little impact, the amount of integration and reliance on Facebook and it's many tentacles brought down a large proportion of social networking functionality. And that's the problem. We've started to put all our little eggs into one basket and once the basket breaks so do the eggs, every single one of them. Facebook has become almost like a cancer on the internet, invasive and hard to kill off without doing serious damage.

There's no such thing as privacy in a social world either. With so much integration every byte of your information is cross-pollenated to a myriad of networks you've signed up for. I mean, look at LinkedIn now, it used to be a bona-fide professional network and now is little more than a Facebook clone for suits. Seriously, do you really want people to know exactly where you are at every moment in time when you post something ? I'm really at a loss over Foursquare and their ilk, what's the attraction here ?

Something of humanity is being lost in all of this instant, 140 characterless noise we're generating. I think humans are losing the ability to communicate.

Mark my words, the social scene will implode; maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but it will. What will Pete Cashmore write about then I wonder ?..........