<quote>Twitter is a massive waste of time.<end quote>
Amen to that. Go read the rest for yourself. I disconnected myself back in May, before the noise on Twitter reached it's current deafening level.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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Unfortunately, so is Facebook these days. To many silly applications making a lot of noise (I.e., Send Puppies, What color are you, Movie Trivia, Pirates, Zombies), not enough useful ones (like yours).
Are all social media doomed to overwhelming noise?
– Don
I think it's a learning process. Facebook is going to go through a silly phase before people start to create useful applications.