Doc Searls said something interesting in this post about Twitter and Facebook:
I’m sure there’s something on Facebook that does the same thing. But Facebook is AOL 2.0. It’s heavy and complicated and wants to run my life. So I mostly avoid it. My loss perhaps, but that’s beside the twin points of live vs. static and light vs. heavy.
I often wonder with Facebook: is it a fundamentally different experience for me, a person who started using Facebook in my 30s, than it is for all the people who got a Facebook account while they were in college because it was what they were supposed to do (according to the cultural norms established at their school)? Do they find it restrictive the same way that we who explore the open web do? I think (this is just a guess and I’d love to hear some feedback from some people who actually are in this category) that they probably love it and don’t see these characteristics as non-open, but rather as all-in-one-what-I-need. Very AOL 2.0.
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