Moving Out!

So, Facebook has gone to its new and improved layout. Mandatory changeover for everyone, of course. It's honestly a step back in terms of aesthetics and ease of use. Though I admit, it's vast increase in resource usage and advertisement placement strikes a mix of fear and awe.

Basically, Facebook no longer is lightweight enough to be a part of my scatterbrained computing. I always have several tabs open in different web browsers, music playing, writing, bit-torrenting, downloads, games, my Vista Sidebar, weather updates, instant messaging, Google Earth, notepad.exe, a calculator, a music editor, and sometimes more humming along.

It's mostly all an excuse to pull away from another networking site. I like my sites clean and to the point. Xanga, Myspace, and now Facebook have all fallen into that bulletpoint engineering style. They take a look at similar products and take all of the features and slap it into their design. Tabbed browsing, apps, status updates, moods, comment walls, embedded music, photo albums. It's just another list. A long boring list of features that all the social networking sites steal from each other until you have this homogeneous mess.

I don't want in, honestly. I'll just hide over here with my blog, minimize my foot print in Facebook and try to find some solutions for my writing, photo albums, and everything else tied into FB.