17 March 2009

Facebook is Determined to Piss Off Users

Every time they update the home page, they make it worse. But that's not my biggest problem. Now you need to confirm that existing accounts belong to real people. How do you do this? Give them your cell number so they can text a code that you need to enter. Obviously. FUCK NO. I am NOT giving facebook my cell number for any reason. Especially since I've had my account since 2004, when it was first opened to Columbia students. Of course, there's another option, but somehow I find it annoying to enter a two word capcha every time I do something.

Am I the only one annoyed with facebook? Or am I missing something here?

6 comments:

happyelfling said...

i have not encountered this cell phone number thing. i'm still using my account and i have not had to confirm i'm a real person. i wonder if they're only doing it at random or something?

dreamerj25 said...

I haven't had that message pop up yet either... that's terrible though!!

whomajigi said...

Definitely not just you. I haven't encountered the cell phone thing, but frankly, I'm not sure how much longer I plan on keeping my facebook. I use it because it keeps me in touch with my friends and my fraternity's events, but it is becoming way more of a hassle than it is worth.

As for the look of the site...ugh. I saw the new page briefly and then lost internet at home, so haven't been on for a week+ now. All I remember is that it is hideous. I was just getting used to the new layout and they changed it again. Is it really that difficult to let users have the option to use the old skin?

farniks said...

As I often like to say when things seem to get out of hand, Facebook is now officially "out-of-control."

osmodion said...

It's gone away again. Maybe they learned the random test resulted in randomly upset people.

osmodion said...

Yes! I want a return to slightly less annoying button.