Entry 2, Due 9.11.2014
Terra System
Three Musketeers Galaxy
Star Command, What R U Doin'?
This week's topic will be MySpace! You want in on my top eight spaces? Ha, just kidding, MySpace sucks. I'll be talking about Facebook instead.
Facebook is a very solid website that gets a lot done, and it does it well. I really don't think I need to elaborate what Facebook does, unless you live under a rock ala Patrick Star, but here's a few simple things it enables users to do: share videos, play games together, correspond in groups, utilize polls, follow celebrities (or their PR people, I suppose), and keep up to date with friends in different parts of the United States or the world. It's a hefty application. It also looks very nice - it has a simple layout and is not too visually intrusive, in my opinion. It has a consistent blue theme that doesn't assault your eyes, and everything is very intuitive - even the most oblivious users should be able to get a task done very easily. The layout is catered to be simplistic and effective, with most options to the left, current friends online to the right, and your "news feed" in the center, which you may or may not actually care about. I sometimes scour it for interesting things, but often it's nonsense or political banter that will cause me to bash my head in. So I avoid that.
Nevertheless, I digress. Facebook does have its cons as well. The whole gaming section? It's really annoying getting invites from people when you don't even play games on Facebook. Like seriously, buzz off. Additionally, the mobile version of the site is bad, especially if you don't want to install the Facebook application. It has incredibly limited functionality and looks especially bad. You can't even upload photos from your phone via the mobile site! Moreover, every time you visit Facebook on a mobile device, they push you to install Facebook Messenger. And by push, I mean DO YOU WANT THIS APP ARE YOU SURE YOU DON'T PLEASE DOWNLOAD THIS APP. It's that annoying. Nonstop advertising of their own product pisses me off, but I can see why they do it. I just wish they'd stop - we know the app exists, you're not going to convince me to download it just to message people. That's why I have a phone in the first place - to text and/or call people. Duplicating functionality is a waste of my time, in my opinion. There's no need to reinvent the wheel.
I'm sure there are different complaints others have, especially regarding functionality and appearance, but I'm limiting my post to those.
Space Ranger Ryan out.
Honestly the little apps that Facebook has taken on to host games have grown too many and too few of them are interesting. Throughout the summer my old work advisor was sending me Bewitched Saga 2 requests to play. I'd never heard of the game and I finally messaged my old advisor to stop sending me the requests. She messaged back apologizing saying that she had no idea that it was sending requests out to other people and that she had only played the game once a couple months ago. This is good marketing I guess but it is horrible for users and really a turn off from even considering entering the Facebook gaming scene
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