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Since people are venting, I'll contribute with one more frustration I don't often see. The one thing I'd think facebook would be good at, it is not, and that i
by radarsat1 10y ago
Since people are venting, I'll contribute with one more frustration I don't often see. The one thing I'd think facebook would be good at, it is not, and that is: Finding events.
One of the main reasons I ever started a facebook account was to be able to follow events happening in the city I live in. Now I am in a new city and don't know much of what is happening.
However, UI-wise, there seems to be relatively few ways (at least, discoverable ways) to search for events that are targeted to your interests, and within a certain distance from where you are. This is _exactly_ the kind of thing I expect facebook to do well. It has enough data on me, damn it. Yet, I find it almost impossible to get FB to actually give me a list of music events that I might enjoy that are in a given city. (And if you want to search one city over from where you are, forget it.. it's either your "home" city, or nothing.)
If I search for very specific terms, sure I can find relevant things, but it doesn't seem to be much better than text-searching a database. I'd rather it finds similarities with things my friends like, previous events I've attended, etc, and use this to recommend things to me in the new city I moved to. But no. It's like starting from scratch. Meanwhile I continue to get ads for events in the previous city I lived in, while I already told FB that I moved to a different continent.
The best approach I've found so far is to find one or two poeple/productions that do things that I like, and to start checking their friends/likes, but this feels extremely "manual". Isn't the whole point of a huge database like FB for it to figure this out for me?