Age-ism in Facebook's interface

[Thorin]

I didn't even realize Facebook's interface was age-ist:

http://valleywag.com/5019971/only-millenials-get-random-play-on-facebook

If you were over 30 years old when you signed up for Facebook, you never got the option to look for "Random Play" ? that's what the "kids" are calling it now. The new No Fun regime at Facebook has taken it a step further: They removed the Random Play option from some people, including me, who'd already checked it. Now all users' inner sluts have been caged, at least as far as the interface is concerned.

We don't get certain options in our profile if we're a certain age?

[Mr. Analog]

Facebook is turning into MySpace more or less. So many apps and junk littering profiles it's getting hard to actually just use it.

There are some profiles I can't even find the wall to post on anymore. Sad thing is it used to be a fairly clean, user friendly place to visit, but some users get the clutter going and that's it. Too bad really.

[Tom]

Eh, I found it was painfull enough to use before all the clutter. So many bugs in the interface and browser compatibility issues to name a couple issues.

[Mr. Analog]

Eh, I found it was painfull enough to use before all the clutter. So many bugs in the interface and browser compatibility issues to name a couple issues.

And what OS/browser combination were you using?

[Mr. Analog]

http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php

Seriously?!

[Tom]

I get bugs in supported browsers. I won't complain about it not working well in Konqueror till it/konqueror starts using WebKit (aka: same code as safari).

[Mr. Analog]

I get bugs in supported browsers. I won't complain about it not working well in Konqueror till it/konqueror starts using WebKit (aka: same code as safari).

FF3 seems fairly compatible with it under Ubuntu...

[Tom]

To be perfectly honest, I haven't even checked it with FF3. Then again, I rarely use firefox period.

[Mr. Analog]

To be perfectly honest, I haven't even checked it with FF3. Then again, I rarely use firefox period.

Why's that?

[Tom]

To be perfectly honest, I haven't even checked it with FF3. Then again, I rarely use firefox period.

Why's that?

Firefox 2 for me was horrendously resource intensive. it'd eat ALL of my ram. people say there was no leak, but I disagree. Leave it up and use it for a couple weeks straight with like 40 tabs open at any one time, and tell me its justified in eating 2G ram, and more swap than you can shake a stick at. It also starts to bog down for me. a fresh install with no settings or state, and its blazingly fast (especially that optomized build of it, that I can't remember the name of), but after a couple weeks of use, and book mark imports (I has thousands), it takes forever for it to startup, make new tabs, open windows, and it even gets slow at navigating around pages.

Konqueror has its issues, but its less annoying for the majority of my browsing. I am however looking forward to trying out Arora once its further along.

[Darren Dirt]

I didn't even realize Facebook's interface was age-ist:

http://valleywag.com/5019971/only-millenials-get-random-play-on-facebook

If you were over 30 years old when you signed up for Facebook, you never got the option to look for "Random Play" ? that's what the "kids" are calling it now. The new No Fun regime at Facebook has taken it a step further: They removed the Random Play option from some people, including me, who'd already checked it. Now all users' inner sluts have been caged, at least as far as the interface is concerned.

We don't get certain options in our profile if we're a certain age?

My first thought was "hey why not just try a little javascript:document.forms[0] hacking?"


Then my second thought was, "Wait a minute, I forgot, I don't care: Facebook and Myspace and all that crap are the most annoying inventions of the new Webscape and visiting the average page on those sites make wish the dream sequence in T2 comes to pass... quickly."

Then my third thought was "Dammit I've got 3 wonderful kids, never mind that whole nuclear devestation thing... A nasty virus on both sites' main server is good enough."

Facebook is turning into MySpace more or less. So many apps and junk littering profiles it's getting hard to actually just use it.

There are some profiles I can't even find the wall to post on anymore. Sad thing is it used to be a fairly clean, user friendly place to visit, but some users get the clutter going and that's it. Too bad really.

I almost miss the old days of CSS-free and DHTML-free webpages 

[Thorin]

http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php

Seriously?!

Interesting that it doesn't list Internet Explorer...

[Lazybones]

I like the apps, gust not how they are missued by some users.

They have a redesign project under way to help with the clutter.

Facebook works perfectly for me under ie,firefox and the mobile version uner pocket ie and opera mini.

[Mags]

To be perfectly honest, I haven't even checked it with FF3. Then again, I rarely use firefox period.

Why's that?

Firefox 2 for me was horrendously resource intensive. it'd eat ALL of my ram. people say there was no leak, but I disagree. Leave it up and use it for a couple weeks straight with like 40 tabs open at any one time, and tell me its justified in eating 2G ram, and more swap than you can shake a stick at. It also starts to bog down for me. a fresh install with no settings or state, and its blazingly fast (especially that optomized build of it, that I can't remember the name of), but after a couple weeks of use, and book mark imports (I has thousands), it takes forever for it to startup, make new tabs, open windows, and it even gets slow at navigating around pages.

Konqueror has its issues, but its less annoying for the majority of my browsing. I am however looking forward to trying out Arora once its further along.

You are correct about FF2, was a known issue. Developers even admitted it some time ago, but said they were too busy with FF3 to address it. Mozilla had some bad press on the tech shows for quite awhile.

[Tom]

Nah, all they admitted EVER was that the large memory use was caused by how Firefox cached the rendered version of every open page, and some of the recent history. Which doesn't explain how it was leaking memory over weeks at all.