User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1997905-20110926200720

This is, quite simply, the last straw. Simply by the name, it's clear that this is a blatant attempt at a conversion to a social network. The sad thing is corporate doesn't even care about hiding it anymore - they don't really care if we're here to use wikis for what they were intended for.

So I'll run through all the basic, obvious responses for this:
 * 1) This was entirely unnecessary. There is nothing wrong with talk pages as they are.
 * 2) * New users have trouble signing because new users don't read the "this is a talk page message". To solve this, Template:Unsigned was created.
 * 3) * Talk pages become difficult to navigate because they become very long. To solve this, the ToC appears on talk pages.
 * 4) * Notifications are not hard to follow because they do not link to the section with the new message. To solve this, default MediaWiki links you to the diff, as well as your talk page.
 * 5) Wikia's goal should not be to become Facebook. This should be fairly explanatory.
 * 6) There a few dozen other things product should be working on right now. For example, despite the fact that the RTE has been having problems saving pages since it was released over a year ago, these glitches have yet to be fixed, or, to my knowledge, even looked at.
 * 7) Large changes like this should be discussed with users before product starts working on them, so that when we tell you things like the above, you don't waste time and money working on them, only to find out that every experienced user to ever use your site thinks it's a pile of crap. This would, in the long run, provide you with more wikis with actual content and actual communities, which in turn translates into actual money - lo and behold, it has the same end result as a good business plan.

I will only say this once: If this goes through, I will cease to use this service. This is a slap in the face to the people who have worked countless long hours to build up accurate, functional wikis, only to find that corporate wants a social network and doesn't care about us. We have been told time and time again that this is not the direction Wikia wants to go in - you no longer have an argument. You can't convince anyone here that when you named this feature, not one person thought of Facebook. Corporate has, in this sense, knowingly, willingly, and gladly lied to us. It's a despicable business practice, and I won't stand for it anymore.