Mehbook

Other social networking sites are available. This would be one such, and it would use a red and green colour scheme.

Yesterday one of my FB "friends" was becoming distressed at the lack of response she received from people when she attempts to communicate with them. I'm pretty sure this is down to a combination of craving attention and not understanding the algorithm which seems to hide people's statuses. Another factor is the fact that we're encouraged to call contacts on FB "friends" and consider ourselves to "like" statuses and comments. This is all well and good but clearly it does tend to upset people sometimes. I personally suspect our brains did not evolve under selective pressure to participate in online social networking, at least specifically, and that it may in fact be organically impossible to interact authentically more than somewhat using such media.

Consequently, I suggest a more emotionally neutral social networking service. You don't have "friends" but "contacts". You don't "like" statuses or comments, just "note" them. There are no images. In fact, this could just be Ponyhoof but much less fancy, more or less.

So yeah, a Ponyhoof-type interface to FB which makes it a whole lot more phlegmatic. This could've been Google Plus were it not for the fact that Google cocked it up by pushing it in people's faces, so there you go, we need something else.