The truth is, it's fun for journalists and, well, the rest of us, to point out that Facebook isn't cool. Maybe you don't find it fun, and maybe some others do.
It's the same reason "hipsters" feel pride for finding the latest band cool before anybody else does - it's just some vague social currency. By pointing out that something which was once cool is no longer cool, you are distancing yourself from it and gaining some of that currency, thus making yourself cooler. So, that's why it should be cool. To help it's users be cool.
I'm not saying this is in any way a useful point of view to take, or that it in any way affects how useful Facebook is, but I'm fairly sure that this is what is going on. Plain old-fashioned shallow trend-setting and trend-following. Playground economics.
The truth is, it's fun for journalists and, well, the rest of us, to point out that Facebook isn't cool. Maybe you don't find it fun, and maybe some others do.
It's the same reason "hipsters" feel pride for finding the latest band cool before anybody else does - it's just some vague social currency. By pointing out that something which was once cool is no longer cool, you are distancing yourself from it and gaining some of that currency, thus making yourself cooler. So, that's why it should be cool. To help it's users be cool.
I'm not saying this is in any way a useful point of view to take, or that it in any way affects how useful Facebook is, but I'm fairly sure that this is what is going on. Plain old-fashioned shallow trend-setting and trend-following. Playground economics.