Facebook usually gets points for having a fairly straightforward and clean user interface. This morning, however, I clicked on the “Notifications” icon of my profile and was taken to this atrocious web page.
I don’t know what’s worse, the Google-like marbles at the top or the “Idiot Test – Your ranking: idiot”. Oh, and let’s not forget the “Vampires” ad.
Nice one Facebook. I could barely find the actual settings controls I came to this page for. This is MySpace all over again.
I read this NYTimes story about Japanese mobile phones not going global and couldn’t help but remember a post I wrote 2 years ago about Japanese software. Here’s a short quote from the NYTimes story, referring to handsets in Japan:
“Despite their advanced hardware, handsets here often have primitive, clunky interfaces, some participants said. Most handsets have no way to easily synchronize data with PCs as the iPhone and other smartphones do.”
Yes, it looks like not much has changed.
Social media and social networking is everywhere these days. Coleman, the outdoor gear company, has a new ad campaign claiming that the Coleman campsite is “The original social networking site”.
A nice play on words/meaning and a clever way to get people’s attention – it worked for me. The funny thing is, you can’t argue against their claim. They are probably right!
