Hi Tom.
My issue with facebook is that the interface seems to follow the convention
of throwing as much information at a person as possible, including a large
percentage of information brought up by automatic searches, random comments
and the like.
For a sighted person I can see the advantage, sinse a sighted person can
quickly skim read and pickout what information is relevant, disgarding what
they are not interested in or perhaps earmarking certain things for future
reference, equally if a visually impared person has the inclination and the
patience to go through all that information and find the bits he/she wants
then fare enough.
perhaps I am just too used to forums, quickly to navigate blogs and mailing
lists where I can quickly find what I am looking for, but for me I just find
facebook gets on my whick, sinse there are so many more interesting and
productive things I could be doing than reading all the random search info
and suggestions, not to mention the unfortunate amount of people who post
lots of irrelevancies.
I'm certainly not against reading someone's thoughts, there are certainly
occasions I read blogs and reviews (heck I even write reviews myself for
fantasybookreview.co.uk), however usually the reason I want to read
someone's thoughts is that I am interested in their opinions or ideas, not
because they've just had breakfast, thus I'd much rather read say a longish
blog post about some aspect of culture, literature or philosophy than just
read a short "I had a full English breakfast today" type of message, which
unfortunately seems to occur often on facebook.
I will try the facebook mobile ap to see if I can filter information more
directly, sinse unfortunately there are people I would like to keep in touch
with who are on there, but in general it's not really my type of thing, ----
then again I freely admit I'm hardly mr. sociability :D.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
