How close are we to admitting that Facebook is just the next Myspace, waiting in line to languish in obscurity and infamy?
I’ll tell you this–it looks like they’re slowballing my updates stream via Twitter. (I have my Facebook Twitter app configured to update my profile.) This could be Twitter API issues, sure, but based on the last few days I think that they may be simply waiting until a tweet is a day old before they put it into my “mini-feed” or “live feed” or whatever stupid name they use to refer to a profile page.
You know, Myspace is backed by vile Australian buccaneer Rupert Murdoch (if you don’t get my reference then you’re not watching enough Keith Olbermann), but Facebook is actually backed by people who are even worse persons in the world than that. Go ahead and research it if you want, there’s no reason to say any more about that one here.
Anyway Facebook’s user experience totally sucks–its photo sharing tools are right out of the 9th circle of hell, its visual design could best be described as DarkBlue Corporate Douche, its recommendation system is worthless, Microsoft is among its shareholders and the loathsome and idiotic Sarah Palin is becoming its highest profile active user.
All that was fine for a while because I would only use Facebook to post links to outside resources hosted on my own web sites and also auto-post an echo of my Twitter stream, and I would log in occasionally to find out what people were up to, because instead of having blogs with RSS feeds that I can read in Google Reader, many people I know (some of them otherwise rational, sane people) have decided to lock their data into a stupid web site where they have very little control over it (remember how Facebook claimed the rights to all photos posted on it for a while until they got caught and “changed” the policy?). But the Twitter auto-post feature acting slowly, perhaps intentionally, is probably the decisive event that turns me off to using Facebook for a while.