Hacking Corner

Facebook warning

I have sinned. I joined Facebook on 2009-05-17. As of writing this, I have 80+ acquaintances on my friend list. I’ve tested out the Facebook Mobile as well. It seems to be surprisingly usable.

The issues that come to mind now:

• When adding new friends, Facebook keeps warning you after you’ve hit some kind of invisible daily limit. I hit the limit several times during the first few days, so it seems to be very low. But on the bright side, once you are done adding initial acquaintances, you probably won’t see it ever again.
• You seem to surrender all rights to privacy and having your data collected when you succumb to using applications.
• Image uploading java applet could use some improvement.

What I haven’t tested yet:

• Image tagging
• Applications (and don’t plan to at the moment)

Interesting things:

• Ability to tag images with names of the people on it. Not very revolutionary but works great on a social networking site.
• Good for casual “additional” socialization as a side dish for actually going out and meeting friends.
• Good way to stay up-to-date on lifes of your friends, while riding on a bus, train etc.
• Easy way to get in touch with old friends.
• Everyone else uses it. Wait, no, they don’t. A lot of people don’t. And great deal of them never will.

All in all, not as horrible as I imagined it would be. But you’ve sold your soul anyway.

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