A recent report on the BBC News website” called “Users criticise Facebook update” got me to thinking about how much I personally use Facebook and what I use it for.
There have been complaints that Facebook’s latest update places the emphasis firmly on status updates, effectively turning the website into yet another version of Twitter.
The way I always saw the website was a way to keep up with friends, chat, reminisce and share photos. It would seem that I am wrong. More people want to play silly games, take quizzes (mostly badly written by the txt-spk generation) or throw sheep at each other. That’s fine if that’s what they want, but for the most part it’s not me.
I freely admit that I spend far too much time on Facebook. I have played the silly games (Bejeweled Blitz is a personal favourite), taken the dumb quizzes (“Are you a goth/rocker/metal/punk/classical” quiz was the dumbest. If you can find it just marvel at the frankly appalling spelling and grammar) and I think I might have thrown a sheep once.
To me though the superpoke application and the like, the “Vampires” type games and most of the quizzes are just a waste of time. I know what type of music person I am, I know what my IQ is and I don’t need to know whether I would make a good husband – ask my wife, not me.
So, I have an idea. I am going to see how long I can stay off Facebook. I don’t think it will be that hard. There are plenty of other places I can still waste hours at a time without going to the site and it might even force me into updating some of my, sadly lacking, websites. Mini Mini Mini is neglected, the District Scout Website is waiting for updates to most of its pages.
And of course, if all else fails there’s still Spotify and the Pop Cap Games website for my Bejeweled fix…
I’ll let you know how I get on!
