I generally use Facebook to keep track and stay in touch with friends. The biggest motivations to get into Facebook was to get reconnected with people that I had lost touch with and be able to keep up with them. I believe that the social graphs of people in today's society is simply much larger compared to what it was before as a result of the internet.
I've recently upgraded to their new profile and was aghast with the prominent display of ads on my profile page. To me, it's a terrible eye sore and I am not very happy about having a personal space being used as an advertisement space. That is a digital line that I would much not like to have crossed. I have since installed and enabled the adblock add into firefox and the ads have since disappeared. For now, using ad-block is a viable solution, but there ought to be better ways of maintaining a social graph, content and access instead of using a closed platform. One of those alternatives is Disapora, which is still under development. It will be interesting to see what happens from there.
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