User blog comment:Jenburton/Coming Soon: Message Wall in Labs/@comment-737801-20111024221751/@comment-1025281-20111024223821

And comments like "hi how are u" and "fine thx" don't already happen on talk pages? Preferring to preserve a system that is harder to learn over having the guts to institute strong local discussion policies (and enforce them) makes little sense to me. Focus on how a feature could be used, not on how Facebook (which obviously contains no encyclopedic content) uses a vaguely similar feature.