Death by boredom -- the slow demise of Facebook...

In the 1870s, the town of Deadwood, South Dakota experienced a gold rush and quickly became home to gunfighters, gamblers, cussin' and many a woman of ill repute. Now, Deadwood is just a tourist trap in boring ole' South Dakota. 

In many ways, that's exactly what's happened to the social-networking website Facebook. 

Facebook's formative years (2003-2006) started out much like the Wild West. Open, kind of barren, but people were free to do as they pleased without much worry of repercussion.

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But slowly, Facebook has evolved into something else. Something that manages to take up much more of my time, yet bores me in a way it never did before. 

Here's how it happened. Full story...

See also:

1. 25 thingsI hate about Facebook...
2. Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
3. Why you should delete your MySpace account...