Grrr…
Written on November 19, 2008
Flipping through the flippin’ Facebook inbox…
It’s actually pretty smart. It picks up the fact that I’ve gone backwards through several pages of messages, and presents the information.
Looking for something?
You can search your messages both by name and keyword.
Sure, that’s great. It would help if the thing I was looking for was not lost behind this:
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I’m pretty sure this isn’t a temporary state of affairs. I’m pretty sure that it’s gone for good.
I guess I feel a little hostile towards Facebook, because it re-invented e-mail, it re-invented it *badly*, it scorned the opportunity to integrate with services that were good at e-mail, and it devalued the great e-mail services already in place.
What Facebook does well is creation and maintenance of a social network. The other stuff – IM, e-mail, blogging, video hosting etc. is nicely integrated but each area is below par.
Can I forward my messages to a real e-mail address? No.
Can I archive them? No.
Can I sort/manage them? No.
I’m just a little grumpy, because I’m using a crummy tool when better ones exist, and it’s not really by my choice.
This is why I hate computers.
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