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My 5th Return to FB

After reading this post by Brad Frost, it made me think about how last night marks the 5th time in my life when I have tried to use FB.

I’ve never stuck to living in FB — primarily because I didn’t like how there are people who are impersonating me in it. But then I noticed how much of the world FB has swallowed up over the years — now to the point of no longer seeing URLs and seeing FB.com/barackobama instead, I could feel the winds a’changing. So I needed to start becoming less ignorant.

What have I learned? Wow — it is amazing. FB’s like Disneyland in that you can just stay in there, and never ever leave. It’s got everything! Why would I ever want to use the World Wide Web?

And with my newfound knowledge of FB last night and this morning, I launched a page for https://facebook.com/designdotco.conf — it was a v cool experience. And it was way easier than building a website in WordPress. It was totally free of charge. It felt awesome. Yet something bothered me in the back of my mind … and it still bothers me.

I’ll explain later what I mean.

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