Facebook is the New AOL

by mick

Faceboook 1000 Free Hours CDRemember the old AOL? The one that would send you CD after CD with free hour offers? The AOL that people would use instead of the Internet and the Web–to get, er, social? That’s how I see Facebook now–increasing isolated and controlled, and soon to be a fading star.

[Update: Damn it. A Google search of "Facebook AOL" shows me I'm not the first one to think Facebook is the new AOL; Jason Kottke had chimed in on it (back in 2007!). O! well, chalk it up to one of those great-minds moments.]