I am as much a Facebook addict as I am a Twitter addict, and it did not take TechCrunch in their article Facebook Tweaks Design, Drops Rounded Corners to tell me the notices about Facebooks design tweaks.
Already with every application and module a person adds to their profile, along with all the followers (I currently have over 1600 followers/ friends at Facebook), load time can get a bit bulky. Sometimes I even get the Facebook timeout connection too. Kind of reminds me of the Twitter Fail Whale. Yay, and I say congrats to the person who though rounded corners in Facebook would really be an asset, but really – keep it simple.
With the ridiculous and non-relevant advertisements, plus the applications, it is insane. Just in case those of you were not aware, there was an application to be able to change your Facebook background, but you had to download a toolbar. There are others than ask you to add a person, invite your friends to the group, and go to some chatroom to get the link to add your background. That is insane. It should be simple and not involve anything but adding the application itself. I decided to avoid that application like the plague because I really do not want another toolbar on my computer and I am really afraid of what the load time would be even though I have cable internet.
Although I would love to pretty up my Facebook, I am content with what it looks like. Getting fancy with a product like Facebook will degrade it and make it look like MySpace, the immature reject of Facebook.
What kind of design tweaks do you think Facebook should consider trying? What should be added? What should be removed?
there is an application for adding twitter feed into facebook streams…
agree with the points you’ve made… nice blog. 🙂
Yes, there is an application for that, but that can be annoying, especially if you tweet a lot. For me, with so many followers. I have over 9000 followers on twitter, it was publishing all the tweets and I had to disable it. In fact, I blogged about ab issue with the twitter application before and I do not recommend it to anyone who tweets a lot.
While I did use some of the designs on MySpace, I see no reason for anything like that at all on Facebook. Why? Because no one who is not your friend can see anything but just a tiny bit of information and a couple of your friends on your Facebook profile. Why fancy it up and kill the load time if only your friends can actually take advantage of it?