I remember back when I first started using Facebook and it seemed so friendly.
When I first started blogging I loved the Facebook RSS import feature as it automatically posted my blog to my feed, saving me the trouble of doing it every time. If you wanted to read more you needed only click on the link to my full blog and you could read til your heart’s content.
These days Facebook doesn’t want you to use the internet – they want you to sit there like a good little Facebooker and update your status and play Farmville all day on Facebook.com. Those other websites? Oh, you don’t need them. Just stay here where you’re comfortable.
As part of this they stopped linking to the source for RSS imports. As such, I bet no one reading my recent posts knows my blog is easily found at http://seanbyrnes.com or that you can subscribe to it there. No, they want you to think I post it directly to my feed.
They also fail to follow any of the formatting for the RSS import, making my blog posts look like the incoherent rantings of a semi-crazed madman. Ok, so maybe that last part isn’t entirely inaccurate but at least I have sound formatting and passable grammar. Most of the time. Depends on how much I had to drink.
Anyway, Facebook used to be like the bar down the street where you could stop by whenever you wanted to see some friendly faces. Now it feels like a casino where they never want me to leave.
