Facebook: now less annoying
July 9, 2008
Like many of my peers, I love Facebook. As soon as I got my college acceptance letter, I was ready to add photos, update my profile, and make “friends.” (My group was never into MySpace…too emo.) However, this application business has gotten out of hand. If I want to write on someone’s wall for their birthday, I don’t want to have to scroll for years past virtual aquariums, bars, flair, and other uselessness.
Which is why I’m secretly overjoyed to read on TechCrunch that Facebook is finally putting its virtual foot down on misbehaving apps. Slide’s TopFriends (the MySpace-esque popularity contest) was out for a week, Socialhi’s SocialMe has been gone since July 1, and RockYou’s Super Wall (an amped-up, not-super version of the regular Wall) had its viral components turned off. SpeedDate – because not everyone has time to go to an actual dating site – is the newest “victim”…the app has disappeared from the list.
Keep up the good work Facebook. Now if only someone would get rid of VH1’s “I Love Money” SuperPoke (Thanks Slide, for making my favorite quality television a little less classy.)
