2013-01-28

A user survey.

Please share any additional feedback you have about your experience using Facebook. (optional)

Facebook is foremost a communication tool. It is, notably, not where I turn for entertainment or unsolicited recommendations.

Attempts to expand its scope beyond that of a passive communication medium are detrimental to its efficacy and burden users with unnecessary concerns. At some point, these concerns—for example, of distraction, difficulty of maintaining conversation over the noise of both overt and more subtle advertisements, the infiltration of genuine social interaction with artificial or gamified activities, the biased filtering of information by undisclosed methods, or the fear of unnoticed breaches of our expectation of privacy—may outweigh the benefits of using Facebook at all.