thehowe_v7.1

Well, Facebook, you've finally done it. I've put up with your increasingly noisy, unattractive, and cluttered design for a while now, but today I finally decided I'd had enough. Facebook Apps are a terrible idea. Not a new opinion, I know, but apparently you're not getting the message. They are big, ugly, cluttered, and obnoxious. They constantly send me messages and invites, notices, and messages about crap I don't care about.

There's a reason I've avoided MySpace like the plague for all these years: Normal Person + Network of Friends + HTML = Bleeding Eyes. It seems related to the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Let's call it the Screen Vomit Corollary. At first, it was a phenomenon restricted to GeoCities, AngelFire, and AOL websites. Then it spawned MySpace. Now it's reached its poorly designed and crudely animated tentacles into Facebook.

So am I leaving the Facebook? No. I'm weak. But, I am doing the next-best thing: using it for free. I've downloaded a Greasemonkey script which removes not only all 3rd-party apps, but also removes all advertising. No more per-view revenue from this user, no siree-bob! The logical course would be to abandon the Facebook. Unfortunately, the power of its network is too great. So, for now, I must sit and wait for the inevitable emergence of a Better Way to do social networking, and the great migration that will undoubtedly follow.

I mean, seriously guys, between this and the whole privacy thing, you're digging your own grave here! Come on!