Once you get past the narcissistic nature of the business, sites like Facebook, I will grudgingly accept, do provide some value. I have gotten in touch with old and lost friends, or managed to keep abreast of their lives, via Facebook. Fine idea. Except the implementation really … what’s the word? … ah, yes, “sucks”. If this is a tool to communicate with friends and groups, why is it so difficult to get to a friend or group from my home page? My choices seem to be to navigate via multiple menu options and mouse clicks until I find the target person or group, or use the search field off to the right of the page starting at a preposterous pixel 780!

Haven’t these folks at least heard of CTS/RSS? I feel thick client technology’s longevity should assured if this is the sort of user interface that “Web 2.0″ offers. But then again, if an entire new generation grows up knowing only of these terms, is a UI regression on the cards sooner than I expect?