Drowning in Facebook Applications
Comments: 2 - Date: October 11th, 2007 - Categories: Social Tools, Social Networking
I think Facebook is killing itself with its applications. If you use Facebook, do you find the applications (and the associated notifications, installations, un-installations) to be overwhelming? What happened to Facebook being a lightweight way to keep up with what your friends are doing? I am having a really hard time filtering through the clutter (not to mention the ads) to keep up with people’s genuine activity.
This is hilarious and one of the many examples of how Facebook is going to way of MySpace: “New apps put the hate in online networking” (Boston Globe)
Comment by Crystal - 11 October 2007 @ 5:47 pm
Sorry if any of that is me…I’m trying to be thoughtful of all the stuff that may get sent whenever I do anything. Most of the apps are thinly veiled marketing campaigns so that’s even worse. It’s fun at first (when I joined three weeks ago) then it all becomes a bit annoying (like it is now).
Comment by Joan DiMicco - 25 October 2007 @ 10:09 pm
Hey Crystal, it is most definitely not you in particular. 90% of my newsfeed is non-news at this point, because so many people are installing applications en masse. I’m confused that everyone says this is the greatest thing to hit the web since sliced bread.
I think there are setting to lower the noise level in one’s feed. I just haven’t found the time to do that yet.
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