Facebook Abandons its Roots
Facebook began as a network for students at post-secondary schools. When I was in first year it was already available for students at the University of Toronto. Which was great. Because UofT is incredibly anti-social and so having an online system for connecting with people in your classes was an assett for us all. Then over the course of a year or so we enjoyed it as the universities our friends went to got on board.
Then Facebook started allowing highschool students to join too. Then everyone else. Which seemed weird, but we didn’t mind, who cared as long as we could still use it. But then, THEN they started adding all of these ridiculous applications clogging up people’s profiles making locating an individual’s wall virtually impossible. Which was a bit annoying.
And now. NOW… (…well, last month but I didn’t notice ’cause I wasn’t in class…) they got rid of their application for courses: which is to say there is now no one way to see who else is in your classes. Apparently there’s a bunch of third-party applications that could be used, but because there’s a bunch of them none of them will work like the original did (unless everyone uses every application). *sigh*. …now I feel like I’ve been tricked into joining some random social online network. And it makes me unhappy. Grrr Facebook!!
3 comments September 11th, 2007