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Blogging: Facebook.. wtf
Mon, 16 Apr 2007

(Pardon me, allow myself to alienate uh, myself.) OKay, so people are into LinkedIn, LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, Grokster, Friendster. People click away requesting and confirming connections in this orgy of building bigger 'connection scores.' Well, I'm generally into hosting (and owning clear copyright to) my own content, and really don't care for the connection count dick-size war, but I will permit myself to hook up in facebook since my wife is sitting over there hooking up and making me very curious. Damnit, curiosuity whips snobbyness every time :)

So I head to Facebook and enter my info into the Register option; a minute later it times out and forgets everything. After another try (chalk -1 up for Web 2.0 :P) I get it going.

My wife has already requested a link to me I guess, since it magicly suggests hooking up with her. Thats sort of cool, so I hit 'Confirm' to her connection and it pops up a box to nail down the relationship. I check "In my family" and a picklist appears.. "sibling, parent, child, cousin, extended family." So here we have a website with millions of users that doesn't understand the concept of wife. And crashes on registration.

Why do people put up with this crap?

Oh, right, dick-size wars.

I wonder how many people spend all day sending requests, checking off those requests in all those sites above, and entering their blog into Livejournal, then looking at their LJ and FB 'friends lists' to see all their blogs.. man. I know I get a half dozen 'confirm' requests a day and I'm sure I'm nothing compared to your average 14 year old :) Pick one site. Everyone, stay on LJ so we needn't monitor 17 sites :)

Edit: (I do realize they have 'We hooked up' but thats generic since you then type into a 'and it was..' field, so thats vaguely possible; theres also 'we dated' which sort of works with its options. I know, I just turned Old, and this site is for highschool folks. But make me feel like I'm still In, okay? :)

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