Why facebook should start counting their days!

 No doubt facebook is an awesome piece of thing. The number of users it has is frustratingly unimaginable. It is unbelievably unconceivable that at the end of the day it is just a website. With regards to evolution of internet, it is technically one step back and it reminds of the days before google search engine when people used to use just one website to do lotta stuff...so dats not good actually!

 Facebook has been buggy and a hell a lot too! Before Google plus was launched, the contents of the wall used to be misplaced, and you can’t really blame your browser for that as the presentation layer and the application layer is not that intelligent, hell it's not at all intelligent. So basically, the facebook servers were not giving proper header information back to us I guess...

 Then came their image viewer...and it was like LMFAO! It was horrible and they took long long time to finally upgrade it to something decent, but still the new sucker has lots of semantic bugs and logical bugs. Try to read any notification or chat while viewing an image in fb viewer...can't do that maan! Compare that with google plus, I just replied to a comment and that too on my friends stream, without even opening google plus in the browser, now that's what I call evolution!

 After the advent of Google plus and all the buzz around it, somehow all the application layer bugs got fixed...well they had too, din't they...lol Then there was the big day, facebook integrating with skype...wow that's awesome. But then again I was attending the webcast of that lunch and the same problem as with the image viewer...can you really multi-task on the same browser tab while doing a video chat???

 Also the new interface of facebook has 3 things to do on the wall instead of 4, namely update status, ask question and add photo. Now try to do this, try to upload a photo. Select a file from your local machine and then stop. Now if you decide that, hey I don't want to upload this pic or any other pic...WHERE THE HELL IS THE CANCEL BUTTON? C'mon facebook guys, such a single thing missed your interface!! :P One of the few workarounds would be clicking on home or facebook, but that sucks if you consider from the point of view of software designing and engineering....and especially for someone of the might of facebook which is worth billions of dollars??? what type of developers do they have??? really!!!

Another fact if you consider Google plus in this regard or even google company as a whole. They never release products out of beta till it's perfect. How many times did u actually encounter a problem with the Google search engine or your gmail? Do you know that Google plus is actually called a project still and they are going systematically one step at a time, while maintaining super sleek interfaces, providing 100% availability and a perfect piece of design from the software engineering perspective!

 Well this is all for now, I have a blog on Google blogspot, but somehow felt it exciting to bajao facebook on facebook…hehe and it is really ugly actually that such simple bugs are so easily visible on a website with 700 million users and worth 50 billion dollars?? You gotta be kidding me!!!                             


~Kartik Vyas~


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