Declaring Facebook Bankruptcy, or Sticking Your Head in the Sand? (or elsewhere...)

Sorry Jason... you're way wrong on this one.

burying your head in the sand -- or elsewhere -- isn't the solution.

definitely you need to play around with your Facebook message notification setting defaults -- and they should probably do a better job choosing a lower default ''ambient noise level" -- however, to close yourself off to your *entire* social network is not the answer.  dialing down the priority / volume level might be, but that doesn't mean you need to declare bankruptcy.  just means you need to filter better.

love ya brother, but yer throwin' the baby out with the bathwater.

peace out.

Comments

[Robert Dewey]

I'm a little disappointed that Jason also turned off comments on his blog, leaving us with the statement:

"It feels like the comments are a place for the same five wacky folks..."

That's a pretty nice way to address your readers. Maybe I should just declare feed-reader bankruptcy and hit the delete button.

Also a nice bash towards everyone who is trying to make use of the F8 platform.

To put it bluntly, I'm a little pissed.

[eli]

calacanis is an egomaniacal idiot. is this his pathetic attempt to put himself on par with fred wilson by alluding to his "I am declaring e-mail bankrupcy" post a couple of months ago? frankly, i care a lot more about what fred wilson has to say than calacanis' self-absorbed musings.

[Damon Billian]

I've just gotten the Facebook bug myself - so I have to disagree with the value issue he brings up.

That being said, some of the application issues he mentions are somewhat valid (should one spam their friends with an application)? My answer: No. My friends can already see what applications I've hadded on the update feed, so they can click on it if they want. If I add a new app, I de-select all (sorry to kill the viral mechanism). His facebook invite list was also littered with app invites, not just friend requests.