Ugh, More Facebook Apps
February 12, 2008
It doesn’t get much worse than some facebook apps. Seriously, enough is enough. O look at me, I’m gonna be a pirate! And a ninja! And a feudal lord! And a student at Hogwarts! And a person without a life!!!!! NOT to mention the invasion of privacy and overall lack of decency that they have come to represent!!!! huff, huff…. I needed to vent a bit. This article understands me. Anyways, Fapps (Facebook + Applications–yeah, I made that up. I’m so clever) are a big problem today–certainly something worth looking into. In class, it always seems like we’re singing the praises of every gold-wrapped piece of crap video or webapp that we lose the common sense to realize what is stupid and pointless and what isn’t.
Exhibit A: The Spongebob video. Need I say more?
Fapps have made facebooking chaos; anarchy; free-range, chicken-hunting, panting, slobbering absurdity. So much crap on everyone’s page makes it hard to use facebook for what it was meant for: communication. Basically, it comes down to the fact that information overload always sucks. There could be hope though. This article claims that there might be a sort of “survival of the fittest” element to the Fapp race. Maybe most of them will be gone in the near future–leaving the few useful ones behind. This might even become a trend amongst all webapps and mashups on the net. It might be interesting to look at how apps and such have died in the past–and if the webapp explosion is dying down yet or not. Don’t get me wrong–not all webapps are bad. Some need to die though.
Here’s me crossing my fingers.
