I'm not going to lie- I'm a little concerned about IIN Chat Room.
Ever since the Chat Room was introduced we've been on a Slippery Slope to becoming Facebook.
You’re thinking, “I don't understand. What's the big deal? Explain it for me please”
I’d be happy to explain it.
Yesterday they allowed for a Chat Room. Now today they’ve introduced Private Messaging. Tomorrow it’ll be a Friends List, then wall comments, and finally status updates and Duck Face Poses.
Does that sound like fun to you? Because it won’t.
If we don’t stop this now and Axe the Chat Room soon everything we love about this Site will be gone.
The introduction of Private Messaging just goes to proof the Slippery Slope we’re on to being Facebook.
But what do you think? Is this normal?
Ever since the Chat Room was introduced we've been on a Slippery Slope to becoming Facebook.
You’re thinking, “I don't understand. What's the big deal? Explain it for me please”
I’d be happy to explain it.
Yesterday they allowed for a Chat Room. Now today they’ve introduced Private Messaging. Tomorrow it’ll be a Friends List, then wall comments, and finally status updates and Duck Face Poses.
Does that sound like fun to you? Because it won’t.
If we don’t stop this now and Axe the Chat Room soon everything we love about this Site will be gone.
The introduction of Private Messaging just goes to proof the Slippery Slope we’re on to being Facebook.
But what do you think? Is this normal?
Also- I hope that picture is from Mel Gibson's "The Man Without a Face". If so, kudos.
These new additions only serve to allow users to connect with other users here if they want to. The foundation of the site is still IIN questions and polls, that's what attracts people here, that's the USP of this site.
For example, YouTube isn't Facebook, but that has personal messaging functions, the ability to add friends, to subscribe, to enter into a public conversation etc. but primarily the website is still used to watch or upload video content, that's why people visit that site.
It's not a slippery slope to Facebook, it's an entirely different slope.
Trust me, 3 months from now we'll have Wall Comments and you'll be laughing at the notion that the Slippery Slope will go any further.
Please Management. It's Time.
One key point is that Facebook was set up FOR social networking and to encourage it. This site was set up for other reasons and allows personal messaging, I think, as a way to ask questions you may not want to disclose publicly. Also to raise revenue, of course. It's all very well you keeping the site "pure", but are you going to pay the costs of running servers and employing staff?
IIN is on the same Slippery Slope and the Chat Room is just adding to the steepness of it.
Hopefully the Higher-Ups are listening..for your sake.
I'm just trying to protect this Site.
But anyways, to answer it I'd have to say that Facebook has a lot of features that plenty of other sites find attractive. I mean why wouldn't sites like Youtube and then forum sites like IIN take advantage of private messages and what not, and the thumbing up and down of comments? And the chat room of course.
As for IIN becoming like Facebook. I don't think that will ever happen. IIN and Facebook are two totally different things.
"I don't think IIN will become Facebook"
It is a hazardous Experiment trying to gauge the future by what you feel at the present.
It only proves that this is a wide spread epidemic.
Facebook is on a whole new level compared to this site I mean millions of people use it world wide and I'm guessing only a few thousand people use this one.
Just because IIN has a Member chatroom doesn't mean it's becoming like Facebook.
In some States it took years for this to happen.
The fact that it took time for the Chat Room to bring about PMing proves nothing.
IIN has been on a Slippery Slope since the introduction of the Chat Room.
Now we have PMing. Next it'll be wall comments, then friends lists, and status updates.
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It's time to rethink the Chat Room before things get out of control.
This is exactly what I'm trying to stop and you admitting you're looking forward to it only strengthens my argument.
This is the Internet and I will thank you to take it seriously.
We will have no fun and frivolity here, thank you very much.
:)
I can't really make a comparison with FaceBook, I don't have account with them.
I don't think there is much to worry about. As you might have noticed, all of the IIN Gold members subscription are ending one after another. It was something that some of us have tried. And, I don't think many will continue to fork out money, month after month for the tiny incentives that come with it. As for the chat room, I don't go there too often. It is intimidating and I don't know much about what goes on in there.
It is intimidating at first, but you are very welcome there :)
I'll give it another shot sometime :}
No one is forcing you to be a part of those site features if they don't interest you, though you do seem to be focussing on them rather intensely.
Everyone would have laughed at the idea of Jews having separate Swimming Pools would start a slippery slope towards Jews having no rights whatsoever but that is -precisely- what happened.
You laugh at the idea of starting social constructs will lead to us becoming a lesser Shadow of Facebook.
Open Your Eyes.
Seriously, your control issues are a little freaky...
As has already been said, it doesn't detract from the actual focus and main function of the site. It's an addition. You don't like it, that's your right. Some of us do. Are we allowed our rights? Or is that exclusively your domain?
I find it rather offensive you've chosen to use genocide as an example. Hardly comparable.
Then again, I suspect this is all for attention, so I shouldn't really be surprised now, should I?
Good day to you sir.
As for your response to my post here...you're being childish. I'm not interested.
nobleserpent - 0
Serpent just come into the chat already, everyone appreciates your contributions, strange as they can be at times.
Lets go, what are you waiting for?
I was Brain Storming over this late last night and the thought didn't really occur.
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crazy guess but... nobleserpent?
My Threads are in my Public Profile so you need never wonder if it's me or not.