What Might Kill Facebook

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

On the other hand, what might really kill Facebook is the fact that somehow, fan pages are now part of the suggested friends list. As you know, I’ve always had complaints about the way Facebook tries to figure out who you might be friends with, based on who else your current friends are connected to. I had hoped that this overly simplistic algorithm would be replaced by something more intelligent.

Apparently, instead of making it more intelligent, they went the other way, now suggesting things I might alos be a fan of. As if letting all my contacts know that I’m a fan of Summer, or Mothers, is all important to me.

C’mon, you have to have something better than this?

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