Top 3 Reasons Facebook Sucks
December 12, 2009
Hi,
Facebook is one of the predominate social networking platforms out there today … ok, we all know that. Anyway, I have problems with many social networking sites … Facebook though, is a special beast.
The top 3 things that I don’t like about Facebook:
- Security issues.
- Privacy issues.
- Lousy user interface.
Security
Putting all that information out there for everyone to see, for Facebook to catalog and sell … makes it really easy for people to create detailed profiles about you. Maybe I’m just an overly cautious nerd programmer, but I’m thinking that having all this personal information out there is not a good thing.
Privacy issues
Very much related to the security issue I just mentioned, privacy is lost when you start posting everything about yourself on Facebook. Another problem is the social aspect of it all – you may find yourself ‘connected’ to people by accident you may not want to be connected to.
It happened to me once, a friend of mine, who was friends with these Russian girls (that I did not know) … anyway, the Russian chicks started posting stuff to my profile page (something called The Wall) and that got me into trouble with someone, though I really had nothing to do with this.
.. Russian girls on Facebook can spell trouble!
Lousy user interface
Without a doubt, Facebook has a really sucky user interface. You’d figure with all that venture capitol money being pumped into that beast, they could get that right. Sending emails is a pain and Outlook, Thunderbird and just about every other email program works much better.
… The short time I used Facebook when I was traveling around Asia, I wasn’t sure half the time if what I was writing was public or private! It got to the point where I was a little nervous about posting anything.
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
