02 May 10 Really Facebook?

Tags: facebook

I haven’t blogged in a while. I would’ve used Twitter to vent my anger, but 140 chars is just too little.

So, Facebook changed that your interests (music, books, etc) links to the appropriate pages. Smooth move. No really. It’s a smart move. I ‘like’ something and it shows up on my facebook profile. Sound reasonable… but I don’t want to show on my facebook profile ALL my ‘likes’. I expected the worst from deleting all my ‘likes’. There goes my ‘likes’ to all the local bands I was following for updates.

So I subsequently searched for all the local bands I was following, “liked” them again.

It is annoying, and there might be some user revolt, but facebook will probably do nothing, because you know, more than a half of facebook are stupid anyway. They will just click “yes. link everything to profiles”, install another app that spams my wall, play some farmville and update their status in unintelligible text-speak. Facebook will rake in the connections and extending the ‘like’ to the rest of the web (as they have done). Insta-extreme-targeted ads. Money. More money.

It is becoming sickening how obvious it is that Facebook wants to become the web. I’m waiting with bated breath for a new truly closed online social network.

P.S. Yes, this post has an air of ranting about it.