I'm no longer a member of MySpace, as I got a little tired of the spam and being phished (as were many of my friends). I gave Twitter two tries, but don't see much point in reading about what people had to eat for lunch, what they're wearing or that they're bored at 2 o'clock in the morning and have been unafraid to bash that rather regularly. That brings me to Facebook. The site is far from perfect. There are some slight annoyances I've had here and there, either with the site itself or people on the site. Since last night, though, for whatever reason, the site has run slower than me after drinking a gallon of rubbing alcohol (aka everclear).
I did read about a hacker group set out to destroy the social networking site in November, so perhaps the site is running very slowly in light of this news, as new security measures are being set. There have also been some new features that have been added, so it's also possible that there's some kind of gliche and Facebook is trying to get everything sorted.
Whatever is the case, half the time, I'm not able to sign in or even sign out. I'm having trouble uploading my profile page, the newsfeed page, my messages, okay, so pretty much any and everything. Can we say annoying? Well, I know I can - annoying. There, I said it.
Also, I'm not too fond of one add-on and another add-on I'm not certain about just yet. On the newsfeed page, at the top right of the screen, there used to be ads and also a list of your friends' birthdays for that day. Not anymore. Now there's this never-ending stream of friend updates, on just about everything they're doing in the Facebook world, from liking someone's status, to commenting on a status, to what they're wearing at that very moment. Alright, so that third bit may not be true, but probably isn't too far off. Stalkers, here we come! Also, if you click at the bottom right of the screen to see if which of your friends are online, the bottom half shows that information and the top half shows what was listed at the top right of the screen, updates on what friends are saying and/or doing. I don't care to know all of that information anyway, but I clicked on the bottom right to find out who's online, not what they're doing and/or saying. If I wanted to know that, I could just click over to the newsfeed page and find out all about it.
The other new feature I've noticed deals with instant messages and e-mails. They're combined and the more I think about this, the more I don't like it. When e-mailing someone, it's kind of cool to see the complete history of the two people, through instant messages and e-mails, but is kind of a pain in the butt at the same time, because you then have to scroll up a ways to find out where your friend's e-mail was, so you can respond accordingly. I've been in favor of some of the changes Facebook has made, but these two? Not so much. If they are part of the problem for the slowdown, then I'd have absolutely no problem with these two features being deleted.
Ah, I just received a pop-up saying that messages are down for maintenance. Indeed. Now I think I'm going to do a few shots of Ny-Quil and shout out just before I pass out, "I'm running more quickly than Facebook!" Yup, it's that easy!
I did read about a hacker group set out to destroy the social networking site in November, so perhaps the site is running very slowly in light of this news, as new security measures are being set. There have also been some new features that have been added, so it's also possible that there's some kind of gliche and Facebook is trying to get everything sorted.
Whatever is the case, half the time, I'm not able to sign in or even sign out. I'm having trouble uploading my profile page, the newsfeed page, my messages, okay, so pretty much any and everything. Can we say annoying? Well, I know I can - annoying. There, I said it.
Also, I'm not too fond of one add-on and another add-on I'm not certain about just yet. On the newsfeed page, at the top right of the screen, there used to be ads and also a list of your friends' birthdays for that day. Not anymore. Now there's this never-ending stream of friend updates, on just about everything they're doing in the Facebook world, from liking someone's status, to commenting on a status, to what they're wearing at that very moment. Alright, so that third bit may not be true, but probably isn't too far off. Stalkers, here we come! Also, if you click at the bottom right of the screen to see if which of your friends are online, the bottom half shows that information and the top half shows what was listed at the top right of the screen, updates on what friends are saying and/or doing. I don't care to know all of that information anyway, but I clicked on the bottom right to find out who's online, not what they're doing and/or saying. If I wanted to know that, I could just click over to the newsfeed page and find out all about it.
The other new feature I've noticed deals with instant messages and e-mails. They're combined and the more I think about this, the more I don't like it. When e-mailing someone, it's kind of cool to see the complete history of the two people, through instant messages and e-mails, but is kind of a pain in the butt at the same time, because you then have to scroll up a ways to find out where your friend's e-mail was, so you can respond accordingly. I've been in favor of some of the changes Facebook has made, but these two? Not so much. If they are part of the problem for the slowdown, then I'd have absolutely no problem with these two features being deleted.
Ah, I just received a pop-up saying that messages are down for maintenance. Indeed. Now I think I'm going to do a few shots of Ny-Quil and shout out just before I pass out, "I'm running more quickly than Facebook!" Yup, it's that easy!
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