Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts

Oct 17, 2008

Bye Bye Facebook

Well my experiment with Facebook has come to an end. The final straw was the user-interface. As they used to say about IBM products, it may be slow, but it’s hard to use (just for fun point YSlow at your profile page - 30 JavaScript files, 12 style sheets and 75 CSS background images - what were they thinking).

But the real problem is that Facebook lacks all the things that make the web great. How do you send a link to a Facebook album to someone who’s not on facebook? Your profile isn’t indexed by search engines and even if it was, see point one. And it isn’t open - you can’t easily take your stuff away.

So for now it’s flickr+delicious+twitter/jaiku etc