Life Delineated

FaceSpace

Posted by Sunira under internet

  Facebook. What an awesome application connecting so many people over so many networks! Facebook, when it first came out was simple, and got the job done. You could view some basic information about your friends and use it to supplement your interaction with people. When Facebook first introduced applications with their service, I knew that there was going to be a lot of completely useless junk applications that should only appeal to the average 6 year old popping up and multitudes of users adding them and polluting their profiles.  Now, I have to admit, I have Graffiti, a small political affiliation graphic and a verse from the Bible extra on my profile.  However I doubt that adds more than a quarter second to load considering my application list looks like this.  What drives me bonkers are those profiles which have as many applications as they’ve been invited.  I was going to put up a couple of screenshots of their profile pages (blurred of course) but my page screenshot utility just breaks each time since the page is enormous. Basically, I have an issue with how long it takes me to get to their wall. On Facebook, it seems, the main modes of communication are either personally through messages or writing on people’s walls. Whenever someone writes on my wall, I like to write back. Usually, I like to look at their profile and see if anything’s up, and then scroll down to their wall and say a couple things back. When people subscribe to so many applications that it takes two minutes to just -load- their page… I tend to get a little miffed. And forget trying to find their wall. Applications such as FunWall, SuperWall, and other “walls” look almost exactly like the original Facebook wall at first glance.  “Finally”, you think, after scrolling for a mile, “Here’s the dang wall”. You write in it and hit submit..but unfortunately for you, it takes you to a page that asks you to install it first. DUPED! At this point, I don’t have anything nice to say anymore on their wall so I just leave Facebook. THIS..this is the problem I had with MySpace! The stupid mindless -unclean- look of MySpace has finally invaded Facebook through and through. Now all I need to program is a Facebook application that warns you about people who have more than 15 total applications on their profile so I can avoid them altogether. I don’t want to or need to see zombies, or pirates, or poker, or glitter pumpkins, or giant slideshows before getting to the wall.

When it comes down to it, it seems that it’s everyone’s personal right to have their profile as they please. It’s about as irritating as walking through numerous pink flamingos, garden gnomes, glass balls and holders in your neighbors yard just to drop something off. It’s their lawn but its still a bloody pain for you to navigate through. So if you have a zombie or two on your profile, that’s fine. But when I have to scroll more than twice on my mouse to get to your wall, well don’t expect any communication from me. :)