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That's it. I use it purely for answering invitations to events and a handy address book. Otherwise my social media time is away from FB, though, I still spend

That's it. I use it purely for answering invitations to events and a handy address book. Otherwise my social media time is away from FB, though, I still spend time on FB in the form of Instagram.

ryanSrich 10y ago
Interesting. I don't think I've ever used Facebook for anything productive (like RSVPing to something). My newsfeed is a complete and utter wasteland, but there's something interesting and addicting about it. It's like watching a car wreck. It's awful, but you can't look away.
- adrianratnapala 10y ago
  I find Facebook pages visually ugly -- unpleasant to look at at a level that has nothing to do with my opinions about the site. But that's just me. I find that British tabloids like the Sun look similar -- and they are designed that way to attract rather than repel eyeballs.
  - BillyParadise 10y ago
    If you think Facebook is ugly, remember Myspace.
    - HemanHeartYou 10y ago
      Are you telling me the floating bling gifs and music videos was ugly?
  - pmontra 10y ago
    It's not just you. Maybe FB is not an example of brutalist design [1] [2] because it's more polished that true brutalists are. It's just a plain vanilla site. Instead of thousands of different layouts on myspace and even on blogger, it's a one size fit all design. A white and blue page should be enough for everybody, and it seems it is, especially when it has the size of an app on a phone. Remember that the vast majority of its users didn't have any web property before their page and feed on FB. They don't find anything missing. [1] http://brutalistwebsites.com/ http://brutalistwebsites.com/ [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/09/the-hottest-trend-in-web-design-is-intentionally-ugly-unusable-sites/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05...
  - newscracker 10y ago
    Facebook is overall ugly in appearance with a bad layout, bad column widths, bad fonts, bad font sizes...the list grows. Lot of clutter in a small space is how I see it.
tyfon 10y ago
I deleted my FB account several years ago and you'd be surprised how many actually find my email when they want to invite me for something. If someone can't be bothered to send me an email I'm not too concerned about going to their party.
- jacobush 10y ago
  They (FB) prey on us with perceived or actual low enough social standing for us to not be found by email.
  - Jaruzel 10y ago
    My email address is so obvious, in fact you can even work it out from my user id, however that still doesn't stop my so-called 'friends' telling me they didn't know how to contact me during my FB detox periods. Some people just don't want the friction that having to actually send an email, brings. Go figure.
    - lostlogin 10y ago
      Someone always hits 'reply all' and ruins it for everyone.
      - DKnoll3 10y ago
        Good luck trying to hit "Reply-All" when the email is sent correctly (all recipients are BCC for their own privacy).
- pantalaimon 10y ago
  I don't view going to parties as a chore, I actually enjoy them - so I don't want to miss out. It's nice to see what events your friends are interested in too. And for spontaneous events (wanna hang out in the park this afternoon?), facebook group chat is still the common denominator, although that might change with facebook forcing people to install their messenger in order to being able to use it on mobile.
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ctack 10y ago
Thankfully facebook events never really took off in my social groups. Currently it's just a couple of Watsapp groups (core friends/activities/classes) and an increasingly daunting email thread for a wedding later this summer. Although your comment makes me wonder if there is a space for a more specialised 'events' app. Maybe this is where the Google/Apple calendars are vaguely headed.
- protomyth 10y ago
  Strangely, I thought Foursquare with its checkins would add event scheduling (future checkins), but I guess they went a different way.
wodenokoto 10y ago
From a business point of view that is okay. You're not one of the users that brings money directly to the fb platform but you help keep the network effect in place. Obviously Facebook can't be all things to all people, so these types of complaints doesn't really show that Facebook is weak, but rather that it is strong and has a lot of auxiliary users that helps keep core functions valuable.

That's it. I use it purely for answering invitations to events and a handy address book. Otherwise my social media time is away from FB, though, I still spend time on FB in the form of Instagram.

ryanSrich 10y ago

Interesting. I don't think I've ever used Facebook for anything productive (like RSVPing to something). My newsfeed is a complete and utter wasteland, but there's something interesting and addicting about it. It's like watching a car wreck. It's awful, but you can't look away.

adrianratnapala 10y ago
I find Facebook pages visually ugly -- unpleasant to look at at a level that has nothing to do with my opinions about the site. But that's just me. I find that British tabloids like the Sun look similar -- and they are designed that way to attract rather than repel eyeballs.
- BillyParadise 10y ago
  If you think Facebook is ugly, remember Myspace.
  - HemanHeartYou 10y ago
    Are you telling me the floating bling gifs and music videos was ugly?
- pmontra 10y ago
  It's not just you. Maybe FB is not an example of brutalist design [1] [2] because it's more polished that true brutalists are. It's just a plain vanilla site. Instead of thousands of different layouts on myspace and even on blogger, it's a one size fit all design. A white and blue page should be enough for everybody, and it seems it is, especially when it has the size of an app on a phone. Remember that the vast majority of its users didn't have any web property before their page and feed on FB. They don't find anything missing. [1] http://brutalistwebsites.com/ http://brutalistwebsites.com/ [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/09/the-hottest-trend-in-web-design-is-intentionally-ugly-unusable-sites/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05...
- newscracker 10y ago
  Facebook is overall ugly in appearance with a bad layout, bad column widths, bad fonts, bad font sizes...the list grows. Lot of clutter in a small space is how I see it.

tyfon 10y ago

I deleted my FB account several years ago and you'd be surprised how many actually find my email when they want to invite me for something. If someone can't be bothered to send me an email I'm not too concerned about going to their party.

jacobush 10y ago
They (FB) prey on us with perceived or actual low enough social standing for us to not be found by email.
- Jaruzel 10y ago
  My email address is so obvious, in fact you can even work it out from my user id, however that still doesn't stop my so-called 'friends' telling me they didn't know how to contact me during my FB detox periods. Some people just don't want the friction that having to actually send an email, brings. Go figure.
  - lostlogin 10y ago
    Someone always hits 'reply all' and ruins it for everyone.
    - DKnoll3 10y ago
      Good luck trying to hit "Reply-All" when the email is sent correctly (all recipients are BCC for their own privacy).
pantalaimon 10y ago
I don't view going to parties as a chore, I actually enjoy them - so I don't want to miss out. It's nice to see what events your friends are interested in too. And for spontaneous events (wanna hang out in the park this afternoon?), facebook group chat is still the common denominator, although that might change with facebook forcing people to install their messenger in order to being able to use it on mobile.
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ctack 10y ago

Thankfully facebook events never really took off in my social groups. Currently it's just a couple of Watsapp groups (core friends/activities/classes) and an increasingly daunting email thread for a wedding later this summer. Although your comment makes me wonder if there is a space for a more specialised 'events' app. Maybe this is where the Google/Apple calendars are vaguely headed.

protomyth 10y ago
Strangely, I thought Foursquare with its checkins would add event scheduling (future checkins), but I guess they went a different way.

wodenokoto 10y ago

From a business point of view that is okay. You're not one of the users that brings money directly to the fb platform but you help keep the network effect in place. Obviously Facebook can't be all things to all people, so these types of complaints doesn't really show that Facebook is weak, but rather that it is strong and has a lot of auxiliary users that helps keep core functions valuable.