#Facebook promotes "Places" in right hand navigation

HMMMMM ... looky looky what I just noticed on my Facebook page ...

In the right hand navigation above the ads, they posted something called "Friends' Popular Places." This is clearly an attempt to get more peeps to use their location based social media service "Facebook Places," but I'm just not buying it. Facebook Places sucks! I have yet to be able to even USE the damn thing on my Droid!! It's gotta be a problem with the GPS or something in the app ... but for real, I've updated it, done all of my own trouble shooting - it's just a piece of crap. Furthermore, Foursquare has the gaming component, which the nerds love, so it clearly adds value. What value does Facebook Places have right now?? It's just not there yet. There's no incentive, and no friggen established value.

Facebook Deals has promise, and I get it ... but we're still just not there yet. Facebook's response to that I guess was by drumming it up via the bandwagon effect. Dude, 59,333 checkins at the SFO airport? Is that just in my own network? What does that figure represent? Furthermore, and this one could be a stretch, but did you pick up the fact that I just checked in to two airports yesterday? I updated on Facebook that I wasn't molested by TSA, and tweeted about it obviously ... but I found the timing of it made me suspect.

Oh Marky Mark and your Facebook bunch!!!! You're just so good at keeping us guessing!!

Oh baby, I love it when you pout at me like that ...

#Drool