Bye Bye Facebook

Well my experiment with Facebook has come to an end. The final straw was the user-interface. As they used to say about IBM products, it may be slow, but it’s hard to use (just for fun point YSlow at your profile page – 30 JavaScript files, 12 style sheets and 75 CSS background images – what were they thinking).

But the real problem is that Facebook lacks all the things that make the web great. How do you send a link to a Facebook album to someone who’s not on facebook? Your profile isn’t indexed by search engines and even if it was, see point one. And it isn’t open – you can’t easily take your stuff away.

So for now it’s flickr+delicious+twitter/jaiku etc