Now, facebook lets pretty much anyone in, and the site has been changed to a style which is actually more difficult to use. So, basically the little brats and trolls are all showing up and filling the place with garbage and useless accounts.

I am now seriously considering leaving and perhaps even trying to start up a university only system (I know, work and honestly how would I get people to join?) again to maintain the exclusivity and perhaps prevent all of the garbage that seems to turn all of these good sites into crap. Facebook was actually really nice when it only allowed people who were mature enough to get into University, and basically started to go further and further downhill as it opened up to everyone.

Now, the trolls, the babies, the idiots, and pretty much what destroys most of the internet commons are filing into Facebook and slowly making it more and more difficult and useless.

SA was able to keep these problems down by making it easy to be banned and cost to join. Perhaps with a similar method a new facebook/friendster/myspace/livejournal-esque site could maintain the same level of quality by preventing people from creating bs joke accounts if it is going to cost them, and allowing free membership to people who have proven that they have some reasonable level of maturity (and make it possible to ban them if they start to do bs crap.)

Sadly, I love to keep things open and allow everyone to join, but it takes very few people to destroy the commons, especially if it costs them nothing, and facebook is slowly becoming another example of this. Perhaps if something could be built that uses facebook’s original exclusivity, and SA’s payment/ban method then a good networking site could be built which will allow everyone, and prevent all of the crap that makes them  bogged down and useless.

Just my thoughts.

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