Here is my take: I used to really enjoy FB. It was a fantastic way to connect with friends - simple and easy. Once they began to introduce applications, everything got much more complex and cluttered. I am not some luddite - this is Hacker News after all.<p>I think connect is a solid step in the right direction, but the applications have to go.<p>Your thoughts?
I liked apps when I could put them anywhere on my front page and have fine-grained control over their access to my information.<p>When apps were demoted to a 2nd tab, and access control became "all or nothing", I basically stopped using them.
You're absolutely right, the original apps implementation totally blew up in their faces.<p>Through regular redesigns, they've slowly been clawing their way back to decency. The twitterification' that has banished apps from your wall page was a nice step, but the further emphasis on the news feed (which I don't use, but others seem to intensely) makes the quiz bullshit prominent.<p>From their actions, the people in charge at Facebook seem to know how much apps have shit all over them. I think they'll continue to recover from it.
I detest seeing friends' quiz notifications in my Facebook feed, so I block each quiz as I see it, have had to unfriend one friend who seemed to post nothing else, and continually post links to all my friends about how nefarious Facebook quizzes are. That helps all my smarter friends learn to spread the word to their friend networks about how uncool it is to take Facebook quizzes.<p>The latest concern is all those nasty ads on Facebook.<p><a href="http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/07/facebook-ad-endorsements/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/07/facebook-ad-endorsements/</a>
i think chatting is complicated on face book caus even though my friends are on line and both of us try to chat togther but its imposibble and my laptop isent crap i have tried it on many coputers my friend to