Sorry, for some reason when I posted that link, it didn’t parse it properly. Don’t click it. Copy the whole URL.

Look at all of the complaints.

Will Facebook hear these complaints? The problem I see is that people still use Facebook regardless of the problems and annoyances. As long as they are using it, what reason does Facebook have to do anything about the complaints?

I use this analogy: Imagine you eat at a restaurant and got horrible service. You went back and ate there again anyway, and again got horrible service. You complained, but then came back again, and again. Each time you come back, you complain about the service, but nothing changes. What motivation does the restaurant have for changing their quality of service if the customer keeps returning anyway?

The only thing that is going to put a crack in this wall is if everybody who is displeased with Facebook close/deactivate their account and stop using it until Facebook does something about it. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening. I thought about doing it myself, but I’m just one person, and I know a lot of people probably think the same thing, but I wouldn’t want to do it unless I knew a ton of others would do it as well…

It’s reasons like this that I left MySpace… except in that case, I had an alternative: Facebook. Now where is the alternative? I really want a way to keep in touch with people in the way that Facebook is supposed to provide.

Mobile facebook died earlier today for a while as well, so that seems to be affected also.

I can go on, but why? @_@

http://mashable.com/2010/02/05/facebook-uploader-photo/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20000051-248.html

However, as long as they don’t stop other applications from doing the job you’re not *forced* into using the plug-in.

I keep my fb open a lot of the time as well, and that’s the one time I’ve had slowdown so it could just be coincidence. Perhaps as the page changed while I had the browser kept open – maybe that in itself caused the issue.

Anyway, I agree with your entire blog post. Their design is just very, very poor.

I also leave Facebook open almost all of the time. So far I haven’t noticed any lagging or excessive memory hogging, but I haven’t checked the process manager. Figured if I can’t notice it, it’s not bad enough. I use Firefox, btw. Also, most of my photo uploads are done through my Droid phone. =]

I was going to suggest the solution you gave, but with a slightly different URL. You’re correct, though, the one you’ve given does provide a slightly better layout for some reason. I’ve used it in my Chrome bookmark bar.

So far I’ve ignored all the stuff about the forthcoming email. I’ll worry about that when it happens. You may also not be aware that the new method of uploading photos requires you to download a plug-in/extension for your web browser.

Now, I don’t upload photos to facebook so this doesn’t really bother me, but again they just haven’t thought. While it has advantages – faster, simultaneous uploads of multiple pictures and so on – there are downsides. Many people access the web from work/college where browsers are tied down and they can’t install extensions. These folks are now blocked from uploading pictures.

Using a Java solution would have made more sense. It works for many other photo upload systems and it multi-platform an browser-independent.

As ever, a vague solution that’s only barely been through through to the shallowest level.

I’ve found something that you might find very helpful! The best part is that figured this out myself! Yay!

This link will (or should) take you directly to your Status Update feed page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=app_2915120374 (NOTE: If this stops working, or does not take you to your status feed page, then navigate to your status feed page yourself and then use the URL displayed in the address bar once you get there).

I simply saved this link as a link button on Firefox with my other links. Instead of clicking the “Home” link at the top right of Facebook, just click your shortcut for the link I gave you here. It should take you right to your status feed without having to navigate to it.

Additionally, navigating to it through the “Friends” menu item on the left activates the stupid Suggestions and Sponsored Ads column on the right. Once I got to the Status Updates page, I clicked Refresh in my browser and that column cleared, leaving only the “Connect with Friends” section, which doesn’t bother me. Using this link as a shortcut should prevent the page from picking up those solicitations it picks up on the way to the Status Updates page.

Sorry if I didn’t explain it well…