New facebook: The Big (and tedious) Debate
What has it been… 10 days or so since New Facebook was launched, and seriously, the “fallout” is the definition of melodrama. Come on, do you ever watch the news? The economy is apparantly collapsing, bread will cost £5 a loaf (pressumerably the equivelent of 30 Euro-cents) and ALL the old people will be frozen to death, only to be defrosted and resuscitated two hundred thousand years from now and “poked” at, is the New Facebook really your biggest worry? You must either have incredibly perfect and lovely lives or have tedious and unimaginative ideas for what to bitch about? (I suspect the latter)
Yes, I was a little “wierded out” (to use an American High School phrase) by New Facebook, was unconvinced, but, with about three minutes of messing around, figuring out where everything goes and am now fully comfortable with it. If you can’t yet navigate a website as simple as Facebook properly yet, maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet, fill out forms, or do anything restricted to the over eights…
To look at it objectively for a moment. There was one feature that I found a bit annoying, which was how on the home page, when you moved the mouse over a name or, for example, a group said person has joined, and you can’t click directly on the link, instead presented with a useless list of some kind (the way I use facebook is look at the updates, see a name and think, “Ah, I haven’t chatted to <insert name in a while, I’ll say ‘hey’ and ask what they’ve been up to?”). They have got rid of that I believe, at least it has gone from mine anyway.
However, its single greatest achievement is solving a problem I mentioned in a previous post, “Facebook Fopars”, namely having to scroll through those awful lag-inducing applictions, putting them safely away somewhere else so people can endulge their insecurities without killing my computer.
So, to sum up, if you don’t like New Facebook, quit moaning or go use Myspace (good luck with that…), no-one likes empty threats.
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September 18, 2008 at 10:44 am
£5 a loaf ???
Where the hell do you shop you cheap skate… lidl ??? At least when the old people are thawed out facebook my actually have developed into somthing useful.
September 18, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Hi Gary. I’m a student so I have been known to walk the halls of Lidl, but I’m more of an Aldi kinda guy.
I do think there’s a lot of benifits to Facebook, that I listed in the “Facebook Fopars”, but as mentioned, can be used to aid procrastination and, wierdly, anti-social behaviour.