Though Facebook has (disputably) become the ultimate platform for "Web 2.0" [side note: I despise this non-descriptive appellative], there's something unequivocally charming about Web v.00001(alpha) that F-book will never be able to truly replicate: the unadulterated, untainted e-mail.

Facebook messages (and all other forms of website-centric abstract mediated written communication) are adding so much more complexity to an already complex, abstract, and virtual world. And I've had it. I'm sick of these non-committal messages and feigned virtual gesticulations of interest ("poking"). I hate e-mails notifying me that I have text messages waiting (wasn't technology supposed to remove barriers to information, not add them?).

To Facebook's credit, they've done an excellent job ensuring their future by making it so easy to interact socially; in fact, they've replaced e-mail all together by forcing users to interact through their own interface, allowing them to generate millions of revenue by selling ads to advertisers and pixelated tripe ("gifts") for a buck a pop to end users by forcing site use on their own interface. Brilliant, but wholly irritating.

I'm taking a stand. If you send me a message, you'll get a reply telling you to e-mail me instead. Let's help e-mail make a comeback.

Way to go, Xobni.