13th July 2010, 2:25 AM
Still you can hardly say it's that quick a means of communication. E-mail programs can be set to run in the background and alert you constantly as new mail arrives, and they can even be set up on modern phones and such. The protocol is "open" so pretty much anything can link into it. Facebook's just some web page. If someone wants to see if someone sent a guest book message, they gotta log into that page and then find out. The whole thing seems clunky to me as a solitary means of communicating with people. More to the point, how else do you contact the rest of the internet? E-mail is how you contact the ESRB. It's not like they're going to waste their time with a facebook page, and even if they did, that's NOT how you want to communicate something like this.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)