Facebook + Microsoft = Crapbook a la Hotmail

I’ll keep it short. Microsoft’s recent investment in Facebook certainly garnered attention. Makes sense, valuation made based on current and projected number of unique users who can be vectors and targets of advertising sales.

Microsoft has thus far failed in every web venture of their own, other than selling crappy web dev software solutions. They’ve been trying to do something since MSN first debuted to be an AOL and then kept trying to be Netscape, to be Yahoo!, to be Google, et. al. ad hominem. Now it’s their chance to get to the social networking yawn fest late in the game by trying to be myspace.

Much like their acquisition of Hotmail, you can expect eventual destruction of what people like about Facebook and a replacement of the current crop of users with a crowd of more clueless individuals (think Yahoo! Chat) and topped off with an infiltration of MS .net garbage openning the doors to malware galore.

Goodbye Facebook. I didn’t know you long, but I was never a big fan anyway.