Another issue with Facebook is that content is created for consumption by all of your connections. It's social preening. It's what you aspire to be, but wholly

Another issue with Facebook is that content is created for consumption by all of your connections. It's social preening. It's what you aspire to be, but wholly incomplete as a medium for search. A few of the missing items: -All the dirty stuff you won't show your grandmother. "Watch what you post" is part of raising kids today. -What you fear. Do you post that you need an abortion or that you might have cancer? -Gross stuff. Nobody posts that they have hemorrhoids. Or any number of things that you don't want girls you might date to see. -Things we're ashamed of. -Things that make us different. If you're a gun-toting neanderthal in SF or a gay man in the bible belt, you might not want everyone on facebook knowing that. -Things the government will read. Reading revolutionary ideas, means of destruction, might be interesting and educational. However, posting on these topics or having a traceable record of them is a wholly different level. Think about prosecutorial misconduct. I think FB will have a reasonable degree of success in search. However, it's badly gimped.