Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Facebook to do list


As we all know, Facebook has become one of the most visited sites on the internet today. Between keeping up with people from high school and posting pictures from last weekend, Facebook is a huge craze with high school and college students. Just like Google became a term to use, e.g. "google it", notable things that happen between your friends can be deemed "facebook worthy".

However, as much as we all love it, there are several things that could be changed to make our visit to Facebook, which is probably ten times a day, move smoother. Lately, people have been adding applications to Facebook. Such as the Top Friends app, Sex and the City app, Flixster app and Sports Fan app, among hundreds of other apps to choose from.

I bet you've added at least one of these and have noticed some problems with the app. I know that under some of the ones I have, they are very slow and you can't always play the games that they promise. So I think that would be my first change to Facebook. Just make the apps Facebook friendly so they move as smoothly as the rest of the website does other than slow you down.

On the down side of that however is when people have too many applications. When you see on the news feed that it is someone's birthday and all you want to do is write on their wall when you finally get to their homepage and it takes you five minutes to scroll down to their wall. That's the negative about the apps.

We all know that we're stalkers on Facebook. We don't admit it, but we are. We want to see what people are like if we don't know much about them. The worst thing about these new apps is having to read through one hundred lines of quotes just to see what their favorite artist is.

The only other thing that I would change about Facebook is the layout. I have been waiting forever for Facebook to let you personalize your profile. I definitely think they should add things such as wallpaper, music and video. That's exactly where Facebook falls short of MySpace. I love Facebook so much more than MySpace. But I really wish that Facebook had the same kind of creative stuff that MySpace does.

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