Comments on: Why the new facebook layout is crap

By: Mosh

Mosh — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:14:06 +0000

It continues to get worse. The new mail interface is a disaster, and the removal of the “Comment” button was ridiculous. I swear fb seem to be on a mission to make their web site as difficult to use as possible.

By: Phil Seitzer

Phil Seitzer — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:38:24 +0000

The new facebook is complete crap as far as im concerned! I only have access from my verizon vortex and am unable to delete anything and cant look for friends other then thier suggestions! This is complete crap and im done with them til they bring back a useable setup7

By: Mosh

Mosh — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:43:30 +0000

Ah, you’re on about the new profile page. Frankly I couldn’t really tell the difference as I don’t see my own profile that often. I notice that fb’s gone offline as they’ve broken it rolling out the new “brand” pages.

Never likes MySpace. It was/is the Social Media version of GeoCities i.e. for arseholes who just like shoving as many automatically-playing videos and sound files as possible on one stupidly long web page with a background that obscures the awfully-coloured text.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:35:16 +0000

Mine was changed a few minutes ago, without any warning – and within seconds it became impossible even to log in! If I ever do manage to get back in, I’m going to terminate my account. I am bloody pissed off. Myspace recently changed, and became sluggish and irritating – so I started to use facebook for all my musical output. Now that facebook has jumped on the backward bandwagon bound for crapsville, I just give up. Whoever first said “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” must be rolling around in his/her grave. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the forum: it’s saved my laptop from being thrown out of the window. Here’s hoping normal service will be resumed soon!

By: vertigoelectric

vertigoelectric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:35:15 +0000

Exactly. I migrated to Facebook because I respected its simple, somewhat mature format. We’re losing that quickly.

By: Mosh

Mosh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:29:05 +0000

I avoid MySpace like the plague. It’s geocities for Web 2.0. Awful, awful site that just encourages evil, nasty, media-laden pages. Any web site that lets you have auto-start music and 27 auto-playing YouTube videos down the side should be burned.

By: vertigoelectric

vertigoelectric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:16:26 +0000

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=app_2915120374#!/help/?community=784

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

By: vertigoelectric

vertigoelectric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:15:17 +0000

Check this out: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=app_2915120374#!/help/?community=784

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.

By: Mosh

Mosh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:03:20 +0000

Yup, I’ve had all that as well. Including my own posts coming up on my Status page. Which I don’t mind – only it’s not consistent. I’ve even refreshed once to have nothing *but* my own posts on there!

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

By: vertigoelectric

vertigoelectric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:43:00 +0000

Just since I last commented here, I’ve already run into numerous other annoyances with Facebook. For example, the feeds very often don’t show up right. Every time I refresh, I never know whether it will show me the latest posts or not. sometimes it doesn’t show any (says “No posts to display”). Sometimes, it shows the posts completely out of order (chronologically). I’ve missed several of my friends’ posts because it doesn’t show it to me.

I can go on, but why? @_@