Facebook seems to be lurching from one annoying feature to the next. When I decided which social networking site to sign-up with Facebook was my choice for its tidy clean design – just the basics and not too much clutter. Now it rivals myspace and bebo on the hideousness stakes. I can choose what I add and don’t, so to some extent the clutter on my page is of my own making.
Now Facebook got in trouble last year for its beacon advertising and after an uproar changed the way that works. Now there are a couple more things to annoy us. Do you hate those ads at the bottom of the screen? The ones telling you someone has a crush on you. You are looking for the next page of the latest silly quiz, scarcely able to contain your excitement to find out what vegetable you are. A big button in facebook blue with ‘continue’ in large letters is right there beckoning to you. But that button is a conman, tricking you to the world of advertising. The link you want is further down in a smaller discrete text. Grrr, death to the continue button.
The other thing annoying me with facebook right now are the apps which wont let you play with them unless you invite 10-20 friends first. I don’t care, I’m not playing your silly game. A Just Say No group has popped up on Facebook petitioning for the ban on forced invites. Apparently Facebook are clamping down on those developers so maybe there is hope.
