Oh, Facebook... What Were You Thinking?

Clearly, Mark Zuckerberg owns stock in Google. Why else would he make inconvenient, non-intuitive, annoying changes to Facebook on the day after Google Plus goes public?

G+ has been invitation only for 3 months. I've been on for a good portion of that time, and honestly, it's pretty great. It makes sharing to groups and individuals easy and has plenty of features. It's only drawback was that there were limited people to share with. Well, that obstacle was removed yesterday.

Today, I woke to a new FB. I keep getting lost in my own page, trying to figure out how the site has determined what it thinks might be important to me. I have to click to see new posts or "stories" as it says. There's some kind of streaming update thingie on the side that I have no clue what to do with. Nobody can figure out what the Hell these changes are supposed to achieve other than drive us over to G+.

Go check out G+ today. See what you think. Look me up there. Drag me into a circle and I'll return the favor. Let's just give it a try.

Now, if you play those games over on FB, I wouldn't worry. I expect  those will show up on G+ soon enough. Let the crops die. Seriously. It's a game, people.

I am not a Facebook Whore. Are You?

This will likely offend people. Proceed at your own risk. I'm not going to mess around and rant about the evils of Facebook and your privacy being violated. That's all been done to death. I'm going to talk about Facebook Whores. We all know them. They are the folks who are using Facebook as both a personal communication tool as well as for self-promotion.

Some have two Facebook pages: one for "fans" or whatever they call it now when you "like" somebody and one regular page that is supposed to be for connecting with people. Many only have one page and they just multi-task on it. No biggie. Not my business, right? Right.

But am I the only one who furrows my eyebrows at people with over 1,000 friends? C'mon... You must be a Facebook Whore. At first, I felt inferior with my paltry 75 friends. Then I looked through them. All 75 have some meaning to me. Many of them are my creepy Internet friends - my best friends in the world. And you know what? I ignore friend requests from people I don't know. *pauses to acknowledge gasps of horror*

Yup, I don't really want to wade through anyone's status updates if I don't find them interesting. Seriously. In fact, I had almost 80 friends, but went through and dropped a few because I realized that they were people I accepted before I knew any better.

So... before you get all angry and tell me I'm an idiot and all of your 2,368 friends are honest-to-goodness pals and that I suck because I have less than 100 friends... take a deep breath. It's none of my business what you do with your account. Friend everyone. Go for it. I don't really care. But I reserve the right to roll my eyes and smirk when I look at the number of "friends" you have.