Facebook, More Like CrapBook

Facebook has been progressively sucking more and more with each "upgrade." Facebook used to be a fit and well organized information system, and now, it has become an over bloated, disorganized disaster. Mark Zuckerberg and company thought that by allowing developers, users, and marketers to develop independent applications, users would benefit greatly by expanding the capabilities of Facebook. I feel like Facebook took a turn for the worse the second that they allowed these applications and "upgrades."

Turn back four or five years ago. Facebook was a young startup company that was finally starting to catch on. It was only available to college students. Facebook provided basically an enhanced "AOL profile." The profile allowed you to share what your interests were, what your major was, what your favorite music and movies were, and so forth. There were no photo albums, no videos, no creepy 50 year old pedophiliac stalkers, and no applications. Everything felt right. New schools were being added daily to the system, and everyone was happy.

Facebook gradually issued new system upgrades. Most of the time, it took a few weeks to get used to the new features, but for the most part, everyone eventually accepted the upgrades. Recently, Facebook upgrades have become sudden and abrupt. They are heavy changes that are not easy to get used to.

The worst part of it all is that many of these system upgrades and overhauls are illogical and unnecesary. It's now harder to get to the simple, yet extremely useful features of Facebook. It took me a good 7-8 minutes of solid searching to find the "Events" button so that I could create a new event. I also think that the new status update feature, aka Twitter, is retarded. If I wanted to know what someone is doing every 3 minutes, I would sign up and join Twitter (something I refuse to do).

I understand that Facebook is a multi-billion dollar business. I know that they want to find the right balance between profit optimization and customer satisfaction, but when thousands of groups are started, who's main purpose is to get Facebook to change back to the way it was previously, I think that sends a pretty heavy message to Facebook's management team.