Facebook-FriendFeed marriage guarantees future of social media d**ch*bags

This is a terribly written article.

Er, no offense, but I agree with the OP. I had trouble following the article.

I'm with the author up until (rewritten for clarity):

The move should mean improved versions of the real-time status and conversation features that Facebook was already moving toward. But that's not all Facebook bought; it's also getting most of FriendFeed's users.

[Then I get lost]

It's not as if social media, um, d-bags, didn't know Facebook existed. [OK, if you're on FriendFeed, you're probably on FB, though "d-bag" is out of left field]

Au contraire, they've been all over it for at least a year, begging people to become fans of their clients.

[Wait, who is begging whom to become fans of what clients? I gather from later sentences that there are people on FriendFeed or FB that are trying to get FB users to be "fans" of the FB/FF user's client? What clients are you talking about? You haven't established that anyone is being hired to sit on FB/FF all day to troll for followers/fans. If that is even what you are saying.]

College students, however, are about to find out that social media jobs exist, and are one of the best rackets going. Wait, you mean I can bother people online, using networks I was already signed up to anyway, and get paid for it? When do I start?

[Again, I'm not clear here based on what came before. I guess there are people with social media jobs, and you refer to these people as d-bags. Then there is the component of your story that implies there are numerous jobs out there for people to troll social networking sites looking for followers/fans, and soon, college graduates will stumble upon these jobs.]

Social media isn't going away any time soon, and it has a lot of upside, but it also has a lot of our attention. It's one of the few places marketers can still get eyeballs, and members of the first generation that really grew up with it are about to enter the workforce and start selling things to one another. Maybe it was inevitable -- and maybe it will burn out after a while, to make room for new models based on new technology -- but I'm willing to bet we'll look back and point to the time FriendFeed met Facebook as the moment it really started to accelerate.

[Ahh - this was good. Good intro, good development, good conclusion.]

wat???

who says "C'est la vie" when it comes to the web events?
If nobody did, I'm doing it right now, in case nobody ever noticed that real life is shuffling itself to the bubble -- ahem... or the cloud -- of the Web.2. Or is it Web.3? Anybody keeping track of that one?
Facebook me not.

So we have to censor the word "douche" now?


Oops! :)

I don't get it....what is the point of this article?