The chameleon

Facebook is forever changing.

One thing I noticed about Facebook when I started using it was that it is a "current" thing. There was no way to search for something we had posted earlier (that is still the case, by the way...just the other day Alex mentioned that he would like to be able to search his old links...and I totally agree!)

A lot of people nowadays are using Facebook or messenger instead of e-mail. (Once when I e-mailed a friend, he said that I was probably the only one among his friends who still use e-mail!) But somehow I still prefer the old-school e-mail for important/official things. There is something...a more reliable feeling about e-mail. You know that you can access your old e-mails or search for them. But on Facebook for example...everything gets lost in the jumble and it is really difficult to find anything dating more than a few weeks (sometimes even a few days, depending on how active your profile is) back.

That is why I try not to use Facebook for anything "important", like things that I might want to find again one day.

And now Facebook is changing all the time. It's actually rather annoying...each time I get used to a feature, they take it away and replace it with something "better". Which isn't always really better... (Not long ago they removed the "Post" button and made the "Enter" key used for posting comments instead. That led to my posting several comments inadvertently when I only wanted to insert a new line. Because, unlike a lot of people, I actually like to separate different "points" into different paragraphs...)

What is wrong with them anyway? Is their product so lousy that they have to change everything? And is their "improvement" so bad that they have to change it again, and again? I guess they call it keeping up with the times...but then, why change something that works? ;) (Okay, actually I know why...it's because it works for some and not for others :P )

Okay. End of semi-rant.