Facebook Tries To Be Too Much
I have been actively using Facebook over the past few months and I have belonged to Facebook for years, mainly because almost my entire family is on there. I do enjoy keeping at least somewhat notified of what they might be doing. But also after using Facebook over this time I am not overly impressed with the interface. Facebook is much prettier than MySpace which should just die already, but the user interface on Facebook is still broken.
Facebook does not replace a blog, not if you actually want to write anything with any depth. The video sharing is not that great and the quality of the video saved is just barely acceptable. Photo gallery, it just does not really cut it in this category either. As far as a status updates, Twitter and my favorite Identi.ca are far superior. I view both Twitter and Identi.ca as being like a giant IRC channel allowing you to tune in and tune out whomever you choose. My first thought every time I check Facebook is that it is a cluttered mess. Maybe Facebook will find ways to remedy these issues, but for me they have a lot of work ahead.
Personally, the constant prompting spurred by my friend's use of every Facebook application under the Sun is very annoying. The utter onslaught of crap wanting access to my personal information makes it impossible to know if there are any Facebook applications that are worth using. I think everyone should be very wary of allowing each of these applications access to your personal information that may include your phone, email address and birth date to just name a few. I have mostly ignored all prompts, not because I do not care about some cause but because I have no wish to allow my personal information to be accessed by the owners of these applications.
