A little open letter. Ajar, if you will.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Dear Facebook,
As I’m sure you’re no doubt aware, I left you in the middle of last week in a fit of pique, an inelegant protest at your shockingly bad update. New Facebook? Are you all too young to have heard what happened to Coke? It was in the Eighties…never mind. The very simplicity that attracted so many to you has been wilfully abandoned for a new interface filled with more white space than this paper which has been left intentionally blank. I’m confused when I use it - perhaps this is a new ploy, introduced by the R&D department, whereby people are more seduceable by insidious advertises in their state of abject puzzlement. Or maybe it’s designed to keep over-22s out of the picture by introducing technology that only the kids can possibly get down with.
Of course, leaving isn’t leaving with you lot, it’s just logging out for an extended period, because you save everything just the way it was in order to make the inevitable comeback that much easier. I would resist, if only you hadn’t rendered the entirety of society incapable of any other means of communication.
I shall have to come back, but please be fully aware that it is under duress and your ‘New Facebook’ remains utter crap. You should still change it back.
Yours unwillingly,
Sam
Dear Facebook,
As I’m sure you’re no doubt aware, I left you in the middle of last week in a fit of pique, an inelegant protest at your shockingly bad update. New Facebook? Are you all too young to have heard what happened to Coke? It was in the Eighties…never mind. The very simplicity that attracted so many to you has been wilfully abandoned for a new interface filled with more white space than this paper which has been left intentionally blank. I’m confused when I use it - perhaps this is a new ploy, introduced by the R&D department, whereby people are more seduceable by insidious advertises in their state of abject puzzlement. Or maybe it’s designed to keep over-22s out of the picture by introducing technology that only the kids can possibly get down with.
Of course, leaving isn’t leaving with you lot, it’s just logging out for an extended period, because you save everything just the way it was in order to make the inevitable comeback that much easier. I would resist, if only you hadn’t rendered the entirety of society incapable of any other means of communication.
I shall have to come back, but please be fully aware that it is under duress and your ‘New Facebook’ remains utter crap. You should still change it back.
Yours unwillingly,
Sam
