Oh Facebook.com

Remember when Facebook used to be simple? Today when I logged on, I saw the new and improved home page, equipped with suggestions for stories, posts, what have you. All things that may just be interesting to you (they're flagged for crying out loud), and a immediate status update tracker that follows you. And of course, 90 percent of the stories that are "most recent" are people complaining about the new updates! Do you see the irony here?

Back in the day when facebook used to just be for college people, it seems like you really had to do some hardcore investigating work to find out some gossip, who was dating who, what people did on a Friday night, what people were saying on other people's walls. You really had to be interested in someone to find out dirt. Now, what seems like a thousand updates later, it's like they're throwing useless information (although it could mean the world to the person who posts--much like this blog) at your face. You can't help but know that so and so broke up, that your friends are meeting up at Happy Hour without you, what your old baby sitter who lives across the country is having for dinner. It's all waiting for you when you log on. And now it's flagged so you have to deliberately close your eyes before seeing latest and greatest.

So, my question is why all the latest improvements? Do we need to hone our stalking abilities even further? Were people slacking off? I am not sure. But I have noticed a pattern that at first everyone hates, and in a flash, people will wonder how we ever did without it...case and point, status updates. Which by the way, I suppose I should go update mine. :o)