Facebook, it’s pisses me off. It was nice back in 2005 when the feature list was short. But now?

I hated the integration of college Facebook and high school Facebook. I loathed the opening of Facebook to anyone with a valid email address. I abhorred the addition of all those third-party applications. And then all the requests from applications, that friends have added, to have me add the app as well. And now I’m getting spam from random people asking me to be their friend, people whom aren’t real quite akin to those spam friend requests on MySpace.

I haven’t tracked my time usage on Facebook but I’m sure most of my time would be devoted to denying requests, not actively posting on friends’ walls, sending messages, or browsing photos.

The harmony of the design I once lauded has been tainted by the introduction of those eyesore applications. Facebook used to be about communication, but now that part has seemed to take a backseat to lolcats, zombie attacks, superpoking, sending gifts, and stupid crap like that.

I’ve been thinking that perhaps I might remove all the frivolous information on my facebook, the “favorites”, the received gifts, photo albums, wall, etc, and just put up a generic message that says:

“I’m Alex. If you want to know about me or just want to say ‘Hi’ open up your email client and send me an email. I like emails from friendly people and I send emails back too!”

It’s not really Facebook’s fault I feel this way, it’s the fault of the general population that makes up the Facebook user base. I still think the company is pretty cool and the whole platform is quite an amazing piece of programming.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 20th, 2008 at 2:12 PM and is filed under Personal.