Facebook

From the horse's mouth:

"Facebook is a social utility that helps people better understand the world around them. Facebook develops technologies that facilitate the spread of information through social networks allowing people to share information online the same way they do in the real world. Facebook is made up of many networks - individual schools, companies or regions - each of which are independent and closed off to non-affiliated users. To join Facebook, people can authenticate into a school or work network, or they can join a regional network. They can then create profiles to connect with friends, share interests, join groups, send messages, writes notes and post photos.

Facebook launched in February 2004, and the website now has over 9.5 million registered users across over 40,000 regional, work, college and high school networks. According to comScore, Facebook is the seventh-most trafficked site on the web and is the number one photo-sharing site.

Facebook is a private company located in Palo Alto, California."

And now facebook has public, so anyone can join. And if that doesn't work, then email me at lastcrazyhorn AT gmail DOT com (minus the spaces and all that, you know the drill) and I'll personally invite you.

My current issue with facebook is that I don't think the owners know what they're doing. For example, anyone can form a group on facebook. As a result, there are lots of duplicate groups that all say the same damn thing; some just advertise better than others.

In addition, there are message boards and walls (a place to reply) on most every group (it's up to the creator whether or not they want to have those features) that get updated a lot, but you can't find out whether or not it was updated unless you purposely check in every day.

Which leads me to my next issue. They put all of the groups that you are in on one page. There are 12 different categories for groups, but they just list all the groups together alphabetically. So if you have 100 plus groups, you can't find anything and it takes the page forever to load. Now what they need to do (and this is just my opinion) is put the groups page into different pages (or at least sections), arranged by category. Then, within those sections, they should put the groups that have been replied to or updated recently at the top, like a message board would do.

I mean, they introduced the news feed as a way of connecting folks and allowing people to see the new things happening on all of their friends' pages, so why can't we see what's happening on our group pages?

Facebook needs mods. It could get its own members to do it--weed out the extraneous groups or find a way of combining them.

I've tried suggesting things to facebook, but I can't tell if anyone's listening to me. Why would they? FB has 9.5 million users . . . 9.5, I mean, holy shit folks. That's a lot of people. It's still only a tenth of the number of users that myspace has, but still.

Now don't get me wrong, I really like facebook. I mean, if you really like something, you want to see it come to its full potential, right? And right now, Facebook just ain't there.