stormbrew

Here’s the thing: Facebook should not try to be a better twitter. When we were lagging behind on features at Nexopia for two years, we constantly ran into the trap of thinking about how we needed to do these things our competition did and do them better. When we finally came out with something that made us, in a couple of ways, a better facebook than facebook, it burned us hard. I can’t go into any detail on how, but suffice to say it did hurt us.

Facebook should try to be a better facebook. It is, at its core, a social utility for your REAL life. For the people you know in person and want to keep in touch with. This change, to be like twitter, where it’s about networking with people you may not know but do know OF, takes them away from that core advantage.

The last update, though I bitched about it, at least made the site more organized and streamlined. This is exactly what I needed from a ’social utility’. Information organized into neat little buckets where I could see immediately where things are. Now.. well now my friend feed gets horribly spammed by whomever posts the most updates. It eliminates my ability to get an overview of what’s going on in my real-world world.

This is, incidentally, why I really dislike the twitter facebook app. And it’s only going to get worse now that the feed is spammable.

Goodbye organization, hello feedspam. Please, Facebook, leave twitter to twitter and get back to being a social utility.