05.05.08
1. APPLICATION NIGHTMARE
a. Great idea, but half of the apps out there are just altered versions of already existing apps. A good example would be The “walls”: The Wall, Super Wall, Fun Wall, Snazy Wall, Crooked Wall, Hot Wall, Sticky Wall, Very Sticky Wall, Rainbow Wall, Sugar-Covered Wall, Sugar-Covered Wall with Sprinkles, and every other “wall”, “floor”, “ceiling” and any surface I forgot to mention where people can leave you “comments”, “stickers”, “post-its”, or whatever you want to call those pesky little “Hey, How are ya” messages that make me MISS MySpace... because at least over there, they all go IN THE SAME PLACE! How about a new “app” the “Comment Combiner” which will take all of the previously mentioned and put them all on one, easy to manage list displayed in ONE BOX on your profile? Come on “Developers” let’s get a-workin!
b. The emails, emails, email, emails, emails, more emails... OK, I figured out how to turn those off, Now there’s some invites, invites, more invites, more invites, notifications, more notifications, invites.... grrrr.... I don’t want to take your quiz, play some game, just leave me the fuck alone!! But they can’t, because for THEM to use whatever app, in many cases they HAVE to spam me with that LilGreenPatch or invite me to join their congregation of Vamprires, Warewolves, Ghosts, Slayers, Demons, Gouls, Warlocks, Witches, Drug Dealers, Drug Lords, Drug Addicts, Mobsters, Mafia, Thugs, Gangsters, Gangstas, Bakers, Dentists, Angry Mothers, Zoo Keepers, Parking Lot Attendants, Porno Producers, Street Racers, Toll Booth Collectors, Gamblers, Strippers, Hookers, or Elementary School Lunch Ladies. Some apps.... one invite and they leave you alone for 15 or 30 days or whatever. Other apps.... send invites DAILY if you wish. Whoever developed that feature should be shot, hanged and fed to hyenas.
b. The emails, emails, email, emails, emails, more emails... OK, I figured out how to turn those off, Now there’s some invites, invites, more invites, more invites, notifications, more notifications, invites.... grrrr.... I don’t want to take your quiz, play some game, just leave me the fuck alone!! But they can’t, because for THEM to use whatever app, in many cases they HAVE to spam me with that LilGreenPatch or invite me to join their congregation of Vamprires, Warewolves, Ghosts, Slayers, Demons, Gouls, Warlocks, Witches, Drug Dealers, Drug Lords, Drug Addicts, Mobsters, Mafia, Thugs, Gangsters, Gangstas, Bakers, Dentists, Angry Mothers, Zoo Keepers, Parking Lot Attendants, Porno Producers, Street Racers, Toll Booth Collectors, Gamblers, Strippers, Hookers, or Elementary School Lunch Ladies. Some apps.... one invite and they leave you alone for 15 or 30 days or whatever. Other apps.... send invites DAILY if you wish. Whoever developed that feature should be shot, hanged and fed to hyenas.
c. It seems ANYONE can just make an “app” and that is why there are so many of them. A lot are absolute crap, and the few “good” or “useful” ones are lost somewhere in between. For example, if I need an “app” that does a certain thing, there is a very slim chance that I will be able to locate one if it exists.... which kinda sucks.
2. UMM... STUFF..
a. The Fucking News-Feed: So, some girl I haven’t seen since grade school is now engaged, and 5 of the friends are now friends with some person I don’t know, and they all changed their main pictures, and two people I don’t care much about are having a conversation on their “Walls” and I am now in the middle of it, because it is now on my screen, some guy I dated for a month is now friends with some guy from Germany and joined the group “I’m Allergic To Lilies”.... I couldn’t care less... WHY IS THIS ALL ON MY SCREEN? I don’t want to stalk these people, and they are too ignorant to go and turn off the feature, so I am posted of their every move... but to go to a friend’s profile.... that’s a complicated procedure.... why can’t my “main home screen” be filled with shit I would like to see/use/read? How about a Zwinky advertisement? ANYTHING is better than “Ekribuble Papapapi left the following message on Ariari Bibibi’s Wall: [insert 3 paragraphs in foreign language here]”......... WHICH LEADS ME TO
b. Foreigners: Where did all these people come from? Seriously, there weren’t this many foreigners on MySpace.... NOT a negative thing, don’t get me wrong, but there should be a way to filter by language and sort through APPS by Language Support (CAN YOU DO THIS?) Also, this is the shit that makes the News-Feed 20 times more annoying, there are a lot of foreigners on my “friends” and HALF of what’s going on on my news feed, I don’t understand. I have no problem stalking my ex leaving “You’re super sexy” comments on a pic of some fat chick in Illinois.... no prob here, but I can’t get enjoyment out of Stalking people who aren’t leaving comments in english.
b. Foreigners: Where did all these people come from? Seriously, there weren’t this many foreigners on MySpace.... NOT a negative thing, don’t get me wrong, but there should be a way to filter by language and sort through APPS by Language Support (CAN YOU DO THIS?) Also, this is the shit that makes the News-Feed 20 times more annoying, there are a lot of foreigners on my “friends” and HALF of what’s going on on my news feed, I don’t understand. I have no problem stalking my ex leaving “You’re super sexy” comments on a pic of some fat chick in Illinois.... no prob here, but I can’t get enjoyment out of Stalking people who aren’t leaving comments in english.
3. FRIENDS
a. The Deletion Nightmare: So I have 236 “friends” I would like to delete. I don’t know them, we have no real common interests and I really would like them out of my life. Why can’t I delete them all at once? Maybe with the use of checkboxes or some multiple select contraption. So now I have to sit here half the night to try to delete these people that I added for “MobWars Purposes” ONLY... now, I don’t need them any more. How do I get rid of them? Is there a feature that does this? Am I simply not Facebook-savvy?
b. I think you should be friends with.... WHAT?! "People I May Know"... just because people I added seem to know them doesn't mean I do... oh wait... I hooked up with that girl's boyfriend sophomore year of high school... I wonder if she remembers me....
b. I think you should be friends with.... WHAT?! "People I May Know"... just because people I added seem to know them doesn't mean I do... oh wait... I hooked up with that girl's boyfriend sophomore year of high school... I wonder if she remembers me....
4. PICTURES
a. What the fuck is up with people using pictures of random crap? Seriously... not just cartoon characters and the like, but really really random crap... like a carp, or a flower or one of those images that comes standard with windows.... or flags... or drinks.... I have a policy, If you are not the thing in the picture you are getting deleted (After you ad me on MobWars, of course)
b. Inappropriate... I'm not even going to start to bitch about some "apps" definitions of "inappropriate"...Me in a bikini is appropriate.... an overly overweight gentleman without a shirt flexing on his web cam is highly inappropriate.... do some damn moderating!
b. Inappropriate... I'm not even going to start to bitch about some "apps" definitions of "inappropriate"...Me in a bikini is appropriate.... an overly overweight gentleman without a shirt flexing on his web cam is highly inappropriate.... do some damn moderating!
5. PROFILE
a. I’m all for “PRIVACY”, but whether you are a Boy or Girl should be MANDATORY. Excuse my ignorance... but with a name like Yambituri Quabizible and a default picture of a ceiling fan, I can’t tell much. No, I’m not gonna hit on you... but in the situation that you start hitting on me, I’d like to know how to respond appropriately.
b. The layout is nice and clean. There are almost no advertisements. There are no profiles guaranteed to crash your computer (a la MySpace). But you actually have to... read... which is a bit annoying, if you ask me. Had people been able to plaster a dozen graphics on their profile and maybe a movie clip or two, you’d be able to mentally size up their personality n a second.... but nooooo.....Who is this person? What do they like? OK.... they like the fucking LilGreenPatch, they are doing great with their Vampires and Demon Hunters, they have assembled a kick-ass monster truck using some other app.... but who the fuck are they? They are worth $4 million on “Owned”, which doesn’t tell me much. I have to go to the “Information” section (in size 8 font, it seems), hoping they wrote a little about themselves. No, They didn’t. After all, who does that?They, instead, added 95 useless apps.... maybe 10 of which say something about them, their hobbies, their interests, which I really don’t feel like looking for.... but I will say a prayer to the Facebook God for HTML support... until then I will just try to search for an app that makes it possible to put my web site’s banner SOMEWHERE on my profile.... so maybe some people can size me up easily too...
c. Sure... the uniform blue and white look is great for the first 10 minutes of browsing thought profiles with no fear of coming across 72 automatically starting Korn music videos... until you come across one of those profiles with EVERY app there is. Why isn’t there a limit? I thought the Facebook people were “smart”. How about, limiting the apps showed? And putting the rest under those pesky “Show More Apps” bars on the bottom, so if I want to see your OTHER 632 apps, I can just click on that?? Seriously....
b. The layout is nice and clean. There are almost no advertisements. There are no profiles guaranteed to crash your computer (a la MySpace). But you actually have to... read... which is a bit annoying, if you ask me. Had people been able to plaster a dozen graphics on their profile and maybe a movie clip or two, you’d be able to mentally size up their personality n a second.... but nooooo.....Who is this person? What do they like? OK.... they like the fucking LilGreenPatch, they are doing great with their Vampires and Demon Hunters, they have assembled a kick-ass monster truck using some other app.... but who the fuck are they? They are worth $4 million on “Owned”, which doesn’t tell me much. I have to go to the “Information” section (in size 8 font, it seems), hoping they wrote a little about themselves. No, They didn’t. After all, who does that?They, instead, added 95 useless apps.... maybe 10 of which say something about them, their hobbies, their interests, which I really don’t feel like looking for.... but I will say a prayer to the Facebook God for HTML support... until then I will just try to search for an app that makes it possible to put my web site’s banner SOMEWHERE on my profile.... so maybe some people can size me up easily too...
c. Sure... the uniform blue and white look is great for the first 10 minutes of browsing thought profiles with no fear of coming across 72 automatically starting Korn music videos... until you come across one of those profiles with EVERY app there is. Why isn’t there a limit? I thought the Facebook people were “smart”. How about, limiting the apps showed? And putting the rest under those pesky “Show More Apps” bars on the bottom, so if I want to see your OTHER 632 apps, I can just click on that?? Seriously....
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