Facebook is teh Evuhlz
I used to be mildly amused by Facebook. It was fun after they allowed groups and started making it more interactive (as opposed to the now defunct Collegefacebook.com). Then they added the apps, which made it slightly more amusing, or so I thought at first. I’ve added a few, but most of them seem really slow. Scrabulous is fun, but barfs out at least a couple times a day. I also get more Zombie, Slayer, Ninja, Pirate, etc requests than I can handle.
But the thing that irks me the most about Facebook, the thing that makes me want to reach out and strangle the developers, is this:
Why must my status updates take the form of “John is…” ?
What if I don’t simply want to declare my immediate status? What if I’d like to give a more general impression of my status, or even *GASP* declare my PAST status? After all, as soon as it is posted it no longer represents my true immediate state of being, but rather my recently passed state. Facebook forces me to be a liar.
One way around this is to use the Twitter app, and have it update your status as well, thus the status takes the form of, “John is twittering ‘Take that facebook!’”. But that is limiting in another way, because then it would seem unnatural to say something like, “John in twittering, ‘John has consumed too much cereal and beer today’”.
Would it really be too much for Facebook to simply leave out the “is” in the status? Would that be too much to ask?
*EDIT* How timely, they just changed the status updates so that you can substitute “is” for anything you want! I take back everything I ever said bad about you Facebook.
*EDIT AGAIN* It seems they removed it as quickly as it had been changed. How…depressing. At least I tasted freedom for a few seconds.
