Facebook’s super social behavior
Since the beginning of Facebook, the general goal has been for users of the service to “connect” with each other via the facebook website.
After facebook really boomed in Australia by about 2007-2008, it was already pretty popular elsewhere, and since the growth of facebook was so enourmous they have been able to continue to build, re-tweak and redesign many elements of facebook as it continues to evolve with it’s users.
On a recent update facebook have added new features, things like the ‘live feed’ which like all updates, annoys a certain group of people who don’t really like it, and will create groups to try reverse it. The latest update also included more social connection tools that facebook want to you try “connect” with more people by trying to guess new friends (yes that’s been around for a while) but they have now introduced the concept of ‘Re-Connecting’ with friends.
From what I’ve seen it basically looks for contacts (friends if you will) that you have not made any contact with, or not posted, commented, liked anything to do with them, and suggests you “write on their wall” to reconnect. This is almost as bad as your mother forcing you outside to play with friends you don’t want to be around.
I think Stephen Colbert put it best, “Facebook is a service that can let you see what all your friends are doing, and within the same three seconds, stop caring”.
