Facebook is useful for a few reasons: you don't have to remember birthdays, you can check sexual orientation and relationship status (sometimes), and you can stay in touch with people on an informal and largely stress-free level.
I do not care what the next movie in your Netflix queue is. I do not care what kind of zombie, ninja, or pirate you are. I am completely indifferent to virtual hatching eggs with enormous gerbils in them.
Your favorite movies hold enough information for me on your cinematic tastes. If you love the Red Sox that much, you can put them in your interests. You can even join an "I love the Red Sox" group.
What I don't need is pointless boxes I need to close in order to glean any kind of relevant information from your profile. What I don't need is massively increased load time just so I may have the privilege of minimizing these boxes.
Can't you keep track of your own bookshelf without duplicating it on the internet?
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Actually, no.
Yes, I agree completely. These stupid applications make facebook look more and more like MySpace, and I categorically refuse to go to MySpace since it's so god-awful ugly.
--Joel
I don't even need to click that link to know that leads to Charles's LibraryThing. So I agree with him completely: the Books application (maybe not so much the movies one, but I wouldn't know since I don't have it) is useful not just for showing off favorites, but what you're actively reading now. I really enjoy it.
But then there's the pirates vs. ninjas vs. zombies vs. Dave's foot up all of your asses if you send me any more of this crap. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
snobby goofballs! those apps are simply school projects devised by youngsters who will one day be in charge of our country/world! rhey are toys, evil means to pick up info on you, or simply silly, depending on which one you use. i hate snobs.
Amen to that, sister.
oh good lord facebook has gotten so terribly annoying with the applications. why is there a need for three different walls?? explain that!!! WHY?!?!?!
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