(if you do not use facebook, ignore this message completely. if you do use facebook, but aren't one of my friends, this message may be of some interest, but maybe not....)
Hello, People With Whom I Obviously Have a Close, Meaningful Relationship Because You Are A Friend on Facebook,
Just a heads up - I absolutely detest these new facebook "applications". I hate them, they make people's pages look like teengagey myspace garbage. If you are filling your profile up with them, I'm going to de-friend you. Nothing personal, its pretty likely that I think you are awesome - but I hate having to see them.
The idea is fine, and I am sure there are already some really smart applications. The facebook peeps had, broadly, the right idea when they opened up the facebook API for outside add-ons.
The problem is in implementation. Just as the first viable products to be sold to mobile phone users were crappy ringtones - hey, is that you, crazy frog? - it seems like the facebook apps, for a while, are going to revolve around stupid vapid garbage. Given the unprecedentedly viral nature of the beast, its only a matter of weeks before facebook profiles become vomit inducing patchwork clusterfucks of "Which "Friends" Character are You?" tests and flashing animated gifs of dogs that bark the "I Like to Move It Move It" song when you blink at them.
To the people filling their profiles with this crap - I love you, really, I must do, if you're my friend. But just consider for a moment that all us grownups are using facebook for a reason. It isn't a coincedence that we aren't all doing this on myspace. Facebook is smooth, sleek, fast, clean and fluid. Myspace is like a garage sale at a nursing home for the aesthetically insane. Facebook will become just like myspace if you continue down this horrible path.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - if thats what you want, feast away. I'm just not down with it, and facebooks overall utility for me is, compared with things like my job, friends, laptop and city, small enough that I'm willing to progressively ditch it as it becomes crappy.
Peace, love, and down with the hate machines,
T
Advance warning - de-friending people..."application" people
Just a heads up - I absolutely detest these new facebook "applications". I hate them, they make people's pages look like teengagey myspace garbage. If you are filling your profile up with them, I'm going to de-friend you. Nothing personal, its pretty likely that I think you are awesome - but I hate having to see them.
The idea is fine, and I am sure there are already some really smart applications. The facebook peeps had, broadly, the right idea when they opened up the facebook API for outside add-ons.
The problem is in implementation. Just as the first viable products to be sold to mobile phone users were crappy ringtones - hey, is that you, crazy frog? - it seems like the facebook apps, for a while, are going to revolve around stupid vapid garbage. Given the unprecedentedly viral nature of the beast, its only a matter of weeks before facebook profiles become vomit inducing patchwork clusterfucks of "Which "Friends" Character are You?" tests and flashing animated gifs of dogs that bark the "I Like to Move It Move It" song when you blink at them.
To the people filling their profiles with this crap - I love you, really, I must do, if you're my friend. But just consider for a moment that all us grownups are using facebook for a reason. It isn't a coincedence that we aren't all doing this on myspace. Facebook is smooth, sleek, fast, clean and fluid. Myspace is like a garage sale at a nursing home for the aesthetically insane. Facebook will become just like myspace if you continue down this horrible path.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - if thats what you want, feast away. I'm just not down with it, and facebooks overall utility for me is, compared with things like my job, friends, laptop and city, small enough that I'm willing to progressively ditch it as it becomes crappy.
Peace, love, and down with the hate machines,
T
Yea, ive gotten some "Hot or Not" requests through the APIs on Facebook...just kind of weird. Maybe we should develop an API that blocks all the other APIs, now thats a larf.
Music to my ears...
Here here! Keep the clutter to a minimum!
I aggree that many are useless, some might be usefull (calendar, post it, teamwork application...one day!;). but that's my point of view, as some other here said that he like the movie, you will find ppl loving graffiti, or some S&M who love the bitchslapping activity! ;)
But if i was a good programmer, i would CREATE AN APPLICATION WHICH WOULD AUTOMATICALLY HIDE THE APPLICATIONS ON MY FRIENDS PROFILE! That would would be the most productive one! ;)
That would be the solution for everyone, no?