I was looking through my Facebook NewsFeed and saw that my friend Stephan had befriended someone named Mary. Out of curiosity, I opened the link to Mary's profile. What I saw made me vomit:
50 applications.
50.
50!
What the hell do you need with 50 applets? Would you like to see what mine looks like?
I have seven. Only one is added from Facebook Platform: an Arrested Development quote box. I'll admit that I may have had up to about 10 applications at one time but then I figured out that there's no point to them, they slow down the site and they're making Facebook into nothing more than a MySpace with a consistent color scheme. All told, the crap that this girl had added to her profile totaled roughly 20,500 vertical pixels. That's 15 printed pages. That's just outrageous. You don't need three travel applications or two(!) superlatives applications. Furthermore, it shouldn't take me more than about 4 seconds to find your wall (This girl's was hidden at around the middle of her profile).
People were afraid of Facebook becoming MySpace Junior when they opened it up for everyone to register. They were wrong. Platform was what made Facebook into MySpace when it allowed people to add tons of crap to an otherwise perfectly fine profile.
In other news, Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) just ran onto the Colbert Report and gave him a sword.
Currently playing in iTunes: Blackbird by Evan Rachel Wood
3 comments:
I'm not partial to all the crazy Facebook Apps either. I think additional functions should have been added...but why the hell do I want to be a pirate? Why am I getting bitten by vampires? Immature programmers have had a blast with the creation of their little...annoying...applications.
I won't use an app that requires me to create an account on another site. I'm not interested in having something on Facebook that isn't connected to my Facebook credentials.
Welcome to the world of blogging!
I agree, there are just too many useless annoying apps running around facebook right now and too many people picking them all up willy nilly (unfortunately I've been sucked into some of that due to the social pressure to receive certain content while trying not to be a jerk)
I'm a little behind in reading this but I do completely with everything said above. People are irritated when I won't become a ninja, get a life.
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