I had a MySpace account, got irritated over time by its terrible design and decided not to use it anymore. I didn’t want to give Facebook a chance, because I was expecting something similar to MySpace. Another reason was because of all the spam it sends. I heard my friends complaining about all the e-mails they got from Facebook’s applications. A friend even made a label in Gmail called “Facebook spam”.
And now, I got my first Facebook notice by e-mail, even though I don’t have the account. It’s an OK one, a friend of mine tagged me in a photo and I got a link to it. Quite polite on first glance. I clicked on the link and got “You have not been tagged in any photos yet.” The usual login fields were on the left side of the page. Should I create an account in order to see the photo? Well, I surely won’t. And it’s not very friendly not to give an explanation why someone can’t see a photo. Is it because someone deleted it? Or maybe you should login? It would be more useful if they sent “Hi, click this link to see the photo. You have to be registered.” sort of message. Or a notice on the page that the photo doesn’t exist anymore. Still, you only get the message that is not helpful (and probably not true).
So, no Facebook for me.
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