The problem that I have with facebook

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Everytime someone adds you to a group, the system automatically approves it and enrolls you into this group. That's why you are not "Invited" but instead added. If you are managing or curating a particular group in facebook, good luck to you. If you've had an experience before in the office where you and your colleagues are griping about your work or your boss in a chat conference and then one of you, just for the hell of it, invites the boss in the chatroom, you know how awful in can turn out.

If you're added to a group, good luck to you, too. The default setting for email notifications is "On" - everytime a group member posts or comments on the group, it sends you an email. Not a daily digest but one email per post and/or reply.

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There's plenty of things I do not like about facebook. Phototagging is one high up the list. There's just a lot of things about it that annoys me as a user. I guess now that they have 750 million users around the world, they can afford to piss a few million off with these stupid features.

But the real problem that I have with facebook is that it is so ubiquitous it would be too hard for me to not use it. Everyone's mothers must already be on facebook. Most of my friends and contacts have used it for things we normally previously have used it with apps, platforms and methods we were used to like email, instant messaging, photosharing and even blogging. If I remove myself from the platform, that will be practically like disconnecting myself from everyone.

They scaled this platform like no one else has done before and that is a great feat. I just wish they think more about their users and the user experience before they tweak something.

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Ppip Cimafranca

Ppip Cimafranca

I look forward to the day when all I need to make things happen is a mobile device, the cloud, some rock music and a foul mouth.